Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will join the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and other world religious leaders in an “Interfaith Summit on Happiness: Understanding and Promoting Happiness in Today’s Society,” at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta this coming Sunday and Monday.
The Diocese of South Carolina reconvened their convention today and passed canonical changes and constitutional changes (in their first reading) that attempt to separate the Diocese from the Episcopal Church without actually leaving.
Texas religious leaders representing several denominations led a conference of 400 persons on immigration reform and released a document called “Principles of Humane Immigration Reform.”
A group of Sudanese ecumenical leaders met with the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss the upcoming vote for the independence of Southern Sudan.
The letter writing in Pennsylvania continues. This week, the witnesses at the trial of Bishop Bennison of Pennsylvania respond to the news that he claims they knowingly perjured themselves.
The most hated family in America gets their day in court. At issue is a clash between protected speech and protected religious expression.
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town spoke of the continuing damage done to both white and black South Africans by the “dehumanizing” effect of the struggle against apartheid. In particular he named the emotional and spiritual consequences for white South African men who were conscripted to fight for apartheid.
A Federal judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the Pope and two other top Vatican officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin.
Bishops of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa say they are deeply disturbed by news of growing human rights abuses in Swaziland, a kingdom sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique.
The Diocese of Northern Michigan announced today that its Bishop’s Search Committee has nominated four priests to stand for election as the diocese’s next bishop. The election will be held in Escanaba, MI on December 4.