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When China's state-run Catholic Church ordained a new bishop for the Diocese of Shantou this summer without the Vatican's approval, it represented the latest step back from years of progress in a c...

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has reelected Sharon Watkins as head of the denomination, capping off a weeklong assembly that mixed mundane church business with hot-button issues such a...

More than 250 colleges, universities and seminaries have submitted plans to the White House for yearlong interfaith service projects in...

The myth about pastors, simply stated, is that we are helpers; that ours is...

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Nicholas Kristof, who says of himself, "I'm not particularly religious," nevertheless took time out from his vacation to lift up the life of evangelical great John Stott.

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The debt-ceiling fight has been the dominant story out of Washington for weeks, and for the most part the White House hasn't looked too good. But in the last few days, the administration has taken some serious steps forward on other fronts.

Kristine A. Culp has produced a sophisticated, original and timely work of constructive theology. It also happens to be a great story—even a page-turner.

Part of the Minneapolis posse of Lutheran musicians that includes Jona­than Rundman and Echelon, Nate Houge offers up a heartfelt CD that creates a gentle mood for worship and the time leading ...

Christchurch, New Zealand, August 2 (ENInews)--New Zealand's second biggest city could have a temporary Anglican cathedral as soon as February--but the 700-seat...

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(RNS) Women, long considered the dominant pew dwellers in the nation's churches, have shown a dramatic drop in attendance in the last two decades, a new survey shows....

(RNS) Leaders of the Episcopal, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches in Alabama filed a federal lawsuit on Monday (Aug. 1) to stop enforcement...

(RNS) Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, an extensive new survey of Muslims finds them as optimistic as other Americans, even as large...

NEW YORK (RNS) The principal of a Catholic grade school in the Bronx that serves mainly black and Latino students has been fired after his...

Western Chris­tians seem neither to know nor care about the catastrophe that has unfolded before them in the ancient heartlands of their faith.

On Sunday, I went to church.  I know, it's summer, and why would you go to church in the summer? There's no Sunday school, and no choir, and there are plenty of other things to do. At least, that seems to be what several people think. But I am the pastor, and I was presiding, so I went to church.