by Tim Townsend | Jan 27, 2011 | News
KIRKWOOD, Mo. (RNS) Three years after a gunman opened fire and killed six people at a Kirkwood City Council meeting, the Rev. David Holyan recently found himself in Tucson, Ariz. Holyan, 46, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, has become an accidental...
by David Giambusso | Jan 26, 2011 | News
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (RNS) And now, let us raise a toast to St. Patrick. Once a cherished icon for generations of Catholics, a statue of Ireland’s patron saint from Sacred Heart Church in Newark has landed in a South Orange restaurant—much to the chagrin of local...
by Sophia Kishkovsky | Jan 26, 2011 | News
MOSCOW (RNS/ENInews) The head of the Russian Orthodox Church denounced a terrorist attack at Moscow’s busiest airport as “the horrifying scowl of sin,” and said actions once condemned even in war “are today becoming a form of protest.” Patriarch Kirill I spoke after a...
by Adelle M. Banks | Jan 26, 2011 | News
(RNS) A top leader of the Southern Baptist Convention has resigned from a new interfaith coalition, saying some fellow Southern Baptists felt it was inappropriate for him to support the building of mosques. Richard Land, who heads the SBC’s Ethics and Religious...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jan 26, 2011 | News
Egypt is a “very dark” place for Christians, with worsening persecution in recent years. That’s the opinion of a Baptist minister in Great Britain, Rev. Wagih Abdelmassih, minister of the London Arabic Evangelical Church, who spoke to The Baptist...
by Nicole Neroulias | Jan 25, 2011 | News
(RNS) Jewish organizations are aiming to send more North American teens and young adults than ever to Israel this year, focusing on increasing current numbers and reaching out to new groups. Taglit-Birthright Israel, which takes 18- to 26-year-olds on its 10-day...
