by Baptist Times Staff | Aug 1, 2011 | News
A wave of sympathy and shock followed the murders apparently committed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway. Church leaders in Norway and internationally offered their prayers and condolences as the country struggled to come to terms with what had happened. The...
by Adelle Banks | Jul 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Rev. John Stott, a renowned and prolific author credited with shaping 20th-century evangelical Christianity, died Wednesday (July 27) in England at age 90. While not a household name like evangelist Billy Graham, Stott was considered nearly as influential....
by Lauren Markoe | Jul 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) A proposed circumcision ban will not appear on San Francisco’s citywide ballot in November, a Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Wednesday (July 27). Judge Loretta Giorgi has determined that as “a widely practiced medical procedure,” circumcision cannot be...
by David Gibson | Jul 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Vatican’s highest-ranking official in the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, died Wednesday (July 27) night at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, succumbing to complications from lung surgery performed a few weeks earlier. Sambi, who was 73,...
by David Gibson | Jul 28, 2011 | News
(RNS) The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are urging the GOP-led House to reject a cuts-only approach to the budget as Washington tries to avert an unprecedented government default on its multi-trillion-dollar debts. “A just framework for future budgets cannot rely on...
by Jonathan Luxmoore | Jul 28, 2011 | News
(RNS/ENInews) Belgian Christians expressed mixed reactions to the country’s new “burqa ban,” as Belgium joined France in criminalizing the Islamic veil. “We’re against this ruling, since it violates basic human rights,” said Kristine Jansone, general secretary of the...
