United Methodists defrock openly gay pastor
December 23, 2004
PUGHTOWN, Pa. — A United Methodist bishop said it’s time for the church to “move on in our ministry” after a gay pastor in his
SBC missionaries in Ivory Coast safe, continue work
December 23, 2004
Southern Baptist missionaries are safe following a November uprising in Africa’s Ivory Coast, but most of them were evacuated from the country temporarily. On Nov.
Nigerian conference blames religion for violence
December 23, 2004
KADUNA, Nigeria — Christian leaders from northern Nigeria attending a two-day peace conference in the city of Kaduna blamed the politics of religious exclusiveness for
Nation’s leaders, families find hope in season
December 23, 2004
There were no Christmas trees in Theodore Roosevelt’s White House. Speculation was that the president, an ardent environmentalist, would not have it. But Roosevelt was
Assailants attack two Indonesian churches
December 23, 2004
PALU, Indonesia — Assailants simultaneously attacked two churches in the town of Palu, Central Sulawesi, during church services on Sunday night, injuring at least three
Chapel owner admits to impersonating clergy
December 23, 2004
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. — Couples who said, "I do" in the Wedding Loft in Jonesborough, Tenn., in the 1990s found out later that, in fact, they
World’s religions urged to be ‘forces for peace’
December 23, 2004
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — The president of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has called on the world’s religions to fight terrorism and be a
Group sues over preserving mission churches
December 23, 2004
WASHINGTON — A church-state separationist group has filed suit to try to halt a new law calling for the distribution of taxpayer funds for the
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