Celibacy hurts church, priest’s book argues
October 12, 2006
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Most priests were not given the gift of celibacy and forcing sexual abstinence on them can be a soul-shrinking burden that drains
British Baptist minister leads protest at airport
October 5, 2006
NOTTINGHAM, England — Twenty-four environmental protesters, led by a British Baptist minister, were arrested Sept. 24 for breaching the security perimeter at England’s Nottingham East
Germany ordains first rabbis since World War II
September 28, 2006
DRESDEN, Germany — For the first time since the end of World War II, rabbis have been ordained in Germany. The three graduates of Potsdam’s
Christianity, not communism, now offering Russians hope
September 28, 2006
The sun shone bright and warm Aug. 19 as a martial anthem glorifying communism and the old Soviet Union echoed across Moscow’s Red Square. The
Polish priests asked to list names of drunk drivers
September 14, 2006
WARSAW, Poland — Hoping to curb alcohol abuse, Polish officials have asked Roman Catholic churches to read the names of convicted drunk drivers from the
Officials disrupt churchgoers at Belarusian camp
August 31, 2006
MINSK, Belarus — Soldiers in Belarus recently disrupted a group of families staying at a private campsite, loaded the group members on a bus and
British minister gets life sentence for child abuse
August 17, 2006
SOUTHAMPTON, England — A church minister in Britain has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting 35 counts of child abuse, including two charges
Turkish nationalists accuse church of ‘treason’
August 3, 2006
SAMSUN, Turkey — Nationalists in Turkey’s northern city of Samsun have stepped up a two-year campaign against a Protestant church, denouncing in the media the
