Sunrise Children’s Services, which shelters and feeds more than 2,000 abused and neglected children every year, is facing a $7 million budget shortfall caused by the Kentucky Baptist Convention in order to prevent Sunrise from hiring gay people.
From Anglican Communion News Service: Tohoku Diocese’s Cathedral Church of Christ, in Sendai City, was destroyed twice – first in 1945 in during an air
Bravo to the Very Rev. Troy Mendez, dean of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, interviewed about Arizona legislation that would protect business owners who choose to
The Arizona legislature has passed a bill that uses the cover of “religious freedom” to allow a person to discriminate against a GLBT person in public accommodation. Bishop Kirk Smith opposes the legislation.
The New York Daily News reports that a Christmas book has been pulled from school shelves in Volusia County, Fla., after a parent complained about
From AP, via ABC News: As visitors descend upon Bethlehem this holiday season, they will notice a different look for the Church of the Nativity.
The Choice: Nancy Gibbs on Why Pope Francis Is TIME’s Person of the Year 2013
Religious persecution happens all over the world and in some places in the world proclaiming the Gospel out loud can result in death, but is it really true that over 100,000 Christians are martyred every year and that over a million people have been killed for their faith in the last decade?
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a case about prayer at public governmental meetings. The Greece, N.Y. case, the first major church-state dispute to go before the Supreme Court in nearly a decade, could be a vehicle to test the current justices’ views on whether practices seen as an official “endorsement” of a religion can give rise to a valid legal claim.
Pope Francis is surveying Catholic bishops around the world about how to provide pastoral care in practical ways to meet the needs of modern families,