by Adelle M. Banks | Sep 3, 2010 | News
(RNS) Jewish and Mormon church leaders announced Wednesday (Sept. 1) that church policies preventing the posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims have reduced tensions between them. Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they now require...
by Julie Sullivan and The Oregonian | Sep 3, 2010 | News
(RNS) A Baptist minister from Oregon who was killed in Afghanistan on Monday (Aug. 30) is the first Army chaplain to die in combat since Vietnam, according to the Army. Capt. Dale Allen Goetz, 43, died in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan’s Arghandab River Valley. He...
by Francis X. Rocca | Sep 3, 2010 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI met with Israeli President Shimon Peres on Thursday (Sept. 2), and called for the conclusion of long-running talks over the Catholic Church’s legal and tax status in Israel. The two leaders met at Castel Gandolfo, the pope’s summer...
by Sophia Kishkovsky | Sep 2, 2010 | News
MOSCOW (RNS/ENInews) A fresco of Christ on the Kremlin Wall in Moscow plastered over after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution has been rediscovered and presented in a ceremony attended by Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian President Dmitri...
by Adelle M. Banks | Sep 2, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A Muslim advocacy organization has released public service announcements ”including one featuring a Muslim firefighter who responded on 9/11 ”as part of a campaign to fight recent anti-Muslim bigotry. Muslim Americans were among the victims and also...
by Adelle M. Banks | Sep 2, 2010 | News
(RNS) The former president of the United Church of Christ is divorcing his wife and is in a committed relationship with a former co-worker at church headquarters, the UCC announced. The Rev. John H. Thomas was general minister and president for a decade of the...
