by Baptist Times Staff | Aug 18, 2010 | News
With less than two years to go, British churches are being urged to start formulating plans to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics. The umbrella organization More Than Gold, which was set up in 2008 to enable churches to engage with the London Games, is stepping up...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 17, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) What started as a local zoning debate about an Islamic center near Ground Zero, and then morphed into a fight over religious expression, has now turned into an election-year political brawl. Caught in the middle of the rancorous partisan fight are...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 17, 2010 | News
(RNS) Catholic and other church-run health care systems in the U.S. are more efficient and provide higher quality care than their secular counterparts, according to a new Thomson Reuters study. The study looked at 255 health care systems and found that Catholic and...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 17, 2010 | News
(RNS) The Amherst, N.Y.-based Center for Inquiry (CFI) has changed the name of its International Blasphemy Day to International Blasphemy Rights Day in a bid t show that organizers are not interested in mocking religion for its own sake. CFI representatives said the...
by Greg Garrison and The Birmingham News | Aug 16, 2010 | News
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) Trustees at Birmingham-Southern College on Wednesday (Aug. 11) accepted the resignation of President David Pollick after a months-long controversy over accounting errors and overspending. The financial mismanagement helped put the United...
by Stephen Brown | Aug 16, 2010 | News
GENEVA (RNS/ENInews) World Christian leaders are paying tribute to the ecumenical Taize community in eastern France, which is marking the 70th anniversary of its founding in 1940 by Brother Roger Schutz, who died in 2005. In a message in advance of the Saturday (Aug....
