by Adelle Banks | May 30, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Crystal Cathedral has announced plans to sell its iconic glass-walled church in Southern California to pay back creditors and overcome bankruptcy. Senior Pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman, daughter of founder Robert H. Schuller, said the church will remain as a...
by Baptist Times Staff | May 30, 2011 | News
Baptists were among those affected by the earthquake that struck southeastern Spain on May 11. The tremors in the historic city of Lorca, in southeastern Spain, registered 4.5 and 5.2 and were the biggest to hit the country since 1956. Nine people were killed and 80...
by Albert Sabate | May 27, 2011 | News
LOMA LINDA, Calif. (RNS) Postal carrier Ruth Gomez had prayed and waited for five years to be transferred to the Loma Linda Post Office so that she could finally put to rest the conflicts between her faith and her job. As a Seventh-day Adventist, Gomez observes the...
by Francis Rocca | May 27, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has closed the monastery of a fourth-century Roman basilica on account of “liturgical and financial irregularities” that included performances by a nun who had once been a lap dancer. The Vatican cited “behavior not consonant with the...
by Charles Pope | May 27, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Rev. Patrick Conroy was sworn in Wednesday (May 25) as House chaplain, making him the first Jesuit to hold the position, and the first candidate forced to navigate around the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal. “It’s clear this loyal servant of the...
by Jeffrey MacDonald | May 26, 2011 | News
Jeffrey MacDonaldBEVERLY, Mass. (RNS) No sooner had 29-year-old Graham Messier joined a small group at his church earlier this year than he found himself breaking an American taboo: talking about how much he earns, and where it all goes. Others in the group did...
