Philadelphia churches sweep city with GPS
April 23, 2009
The rustle of plastic door-hanger bags was a telltale sound of a windy Philadelphia day and evidence that members of Haitian Evangelical Baptist Church visited
Presbyterians, Lutherans make budget cutbacks
April 23, 2009
CHICAGO — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) both have slashed their 2009 budgets, cutting programs and laying off scores
House approves bill for FDA to control tobacco
April 23, 2009
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives easily approved a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products.
Episcopal Church defrocks Islam-professing priest
April 23, 2009
SEATTLE — An Episcopal priest who professed two years ago that she was also a practicing Muslim has been defrocked by the Episcopal Church. Bishop
Cleric takes part in police raid on Baptist group
April 23, 2009
ALMALYK, Uzbekistan — Police in Uzbekistan decided to invite a Russian Orthodox priest to take part in a raid on a group of Baptists, a
Tajik Christians forced to leave church building
April 23, 2009
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — In Tajikistan’s latest attack on religious property, the members of Grace Sunmin Protestant Church in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, have been
Baptists face fines for distributing religious literature
April 23, 2009
NUKUS, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan continues to penalize people who distribute religious literature. In two separate cases, Baptists from registered and unregistered churches are facing prosecution,
Iranian Christians ordered to stop sharing faith
April 23, 2009
SHIRAZ, Iran — Declaring three Iranian Christians guilty of cooperating with “anti-government movements” March 10, a court in Shiraz ordered the converts to discontinue Christian
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