Author: Linda Bloom

Source: United Methodist News Service

http://www.wfn.org/2007/07/msg00036.html

The United Methodist Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns wants to help the denomination put its interfaith and ecumenical agenda in context.

That means explaining how hard it is to separate the church in the United States from history, culture and government, according to the Rev. Larry Pickens, the commission's chief executive....

Author: CAROL DeMARE

Source: The Times Union

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Religion News Service

http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR070307A.html

LAWRENCE, Massachusetts...(July 2, 2007)... The New England Conference of The United Methodist Church has issued its Divestment Task Force report, including recommendations for divestment from twenty companies identified as supporting the Israeli occupation in Palestine.

Based on the research and findings of the Conference's Divestment Task...

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/94407-egypt_copts/

CAIRO, Egypt: An Egyptian court accepted an appeal Monday from 45 Copts who were denied the right to reclaim their religious identities after they decided to convert back...

Author: JOE RODRIGUEZ AND ICESS FERNANDEZ

Source: The Wichita Eagle

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/110957.html

When Milca Molina moved to Wichita from Los Angeles nearly 20 years ago, there were two evangelical churches in the city that had a predominantly Spanish-speaking congregation. Today, there are more than 15, according to Molina, who helped start one of them -- Iglesia Cristiana Nueva Jerusalem, 1650 S. Broadway. Molina serves as...

Author: Yaakov Lappin

Source: YNetnews.com

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3418316,00.html

The United Methodist Church's call to divest from companies linked to Israel "is bordering on anti-Semitism," Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman told Ynetnews on Wednesday.

Foxman furiously condemned recommendations made by the New England branch of the Methodist Church for its members to divest "from twenty companies...

Author: Justin Webb

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6228854.stm

Supporters of President George W Bush say it's one of his greatest achievements: encouraging religious organisations to help with the provision of basic social services.

Bobby Lytle says the InnerChange programme has changed his life

The White House has doled out millions of dollars of public funding to these bodies - many of them representing...

Author: Manya A. Brachear

Source: Chicago Tribune

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Author: Bonny Apunyu

Source: SomaliNet News

Wire Service: AFP

http://somalinet.com/news/world/World/11247

In what has sparked anger among the indigenous people who say they own the property, authorities have demolished a church in a Muslim-ruled state in northeast Malaysia, a religious official said on Tuesday.

a minister and secretary general of the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship of Malaysia, Wong Kim...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Union Tribune

Wire Service: AP

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070618-1310-gaza-churchdesecration.html

A school and convent belonging to the Gaza Strip's tiny Roman Catholic community were ransacked, burned and looted during clashes around a major security headquarters, the head of the community said Monday.

Crosses were broken, a statue...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Compass Direct News

http://compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&lang=en&length=short&idelement=4903&backpage=summaries

June 12 (Compass Direct News) – A mob of Hindu extremists on Friday (June 8) beat a pastor and tried to set him on fire before parading him naked in the suburbs of Bangalore, capital of Karnataka state. Some 150 people allegedly led by Hindu...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Taipei Times

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/06/11/2003364774

US President George W. Bush sought on Saturday to reassure Pope Benedict XVI over the plight of Iraq's minority Christians and also to mend fences with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi after months of bilateral tensions.

The pope "did express deep concern about...

Author: Kamil Zaheer

Source: Reuters

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6699247.stm

Pope Benedict XVI has reversed a controversial decision he took a year ago to downgrade the Vatican department which deals with the Islamic world.

The Council for Interreligious Dialogue will be restored to its former position as a department in its own right.

It is not clear if the department's former head, British archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, will also be reinstated.

His removal was...

Source: Dawn

http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/28/nat19.htm

ISLAMABAD, May 27: The All-Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) has demanded that the government should provide protection to the Christian community in Charsadda against threats by radical Islamic groups.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, chairman APMA Shahbaz Bhatti rejected claims of the Charsadda police to have solved the mystery behind threatening letters to the Christian community. He demanded that the government...