Missionaries, convert released after kidnapping
March 21, 2002
BANGALORE, India — Two Christian missionaries and a new believer working in the newly created state of Jharkand who were kidnapped February 11 have been
Egyptian army attacks Christian center
March 21, 2002
CAIRO, Egypt — The Egyptian military launched a series of attacks against a Christian farm in the Suez desert just east of Cairo during February,
Mosque construction halted in Nazareth
March 21, 2002
JERUSALEM —The cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has halted the construction of a mosque in Nazareth near the landmark Basilica of the Annunciation,
Students, teachers forced to say Hindu prayers
March 14, 2002
GANDHINAGAR, India — A new law in India, which religious leaders say is designed to ward off more earthquakes like the one that killed an
Religious Broadcasters head quits before installation
March 14, 2002
Just before he was set to be formally installed, Wayne Pederson, the new president of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), resigned Feb. 16. Pederson
Southern Baptist workers told to leave Indonesian island
March 14, 2002
Indonesian police have ordered a team of American volunteers to leave the village of Waipia on the island of Seram, in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands.
Finding points to Mormon leader in massacre
March 14, 2002
DENVER — One of the worst massacres in American history happened in 1857, when 120 men, women and children in a wagon train traveling from
Bid for gay clergy defeated by Presbyterians
March 14, 2002
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In a major setback for liberal Presbyterians, the nation’s largest Presbyterian church on Feb. 19 soundly defeated a move to allow noncelibate
