Author: Staff Writer

Original Source: The Economic Times

Wire Service: AFP

https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive...

Author: Michael Paulson

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/31/methodists_concerned_with_israeli_occupation/

Ratcheting up the simmering debate over how Protestant denominations should express their concern about Israel, the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church is advising congregations and individuals to divest their holdings from a wide variety of...

Author: Michelle Rindels

Source: Religion News Service

https://religionnews.com/2007/08/01/rns-weekly-digest76/

A broad coalition of evangelical leaders is attempting to "correct a serious misperception" that all evangelicals oppose creating a Palestinian state.

Led by Ron...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072900039.html

BEIJING -- Four priests from China's underground Roman Catholic church were detained by police, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Sunday.

Three priests were detained Tuesday in the northern region of Inner Mongolia after fleeing...

/Author: Staff Writer

Original Source: AllAfrica.com/East African Standard

https://allafrica.com/stories/200707250757.html

Is religion set to stamp its authority on Kenya's politics? That is the question given the unprecedented high number of clergymen and...

Author: Dmitry Solovyov

Source: Reuters

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24767313.htm

MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuters) - The Soviet Union sold the sacred bells from Moscow's oldest monastery as scrap and they ended up in the United States. Seventy-seven years later, Russia is bringing them home, drawing a new line under its communist past.

Charles Crane, a U.S. industrialist and diplomat with a passion for Russian art and culture,...

Author: Anton S. Troianovski

Source: The Harvard Crimson

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/7/24/lowell-bells-get-russian-farewell-moscowlowell/

MOSCOW—Lowell House's new bells got quite a send-off on Tuesday as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated them at a...

Author: Staff Writer

Original Source: Boston Globe

Wire Service: AP

https://www.oklahoman.com/article/3090856/patriarch-consecrates-bells-for-harvard

MOSCOW --Patriarch...

Author: Rod Nordland

Source: Newsweek

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19762050/site/newsweek/

July 23, 2007 issue - He refused to leave Baghdad, even after the day last year when masked Sunni gunmen forced him and eight co-workers to line up against a wall and said, "Say your prayers." An Assyrian Christian, Rayid Albert closed his eyes and prayed to Jesus as the killers opened fire. He alone survived, shot seven times. But a month ago a note was left at...

Author: Sopheng Cheang

Source: Associated Press

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701754.html?nav=rss_religion/wires

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia's government issued a directive preventing Christians from promoting their religion in public places, or using money or other means to persuade people to convert, officials said Tuesday.

"They can do...

Author: Dean Koldenhoven

Source: Daily Southtown

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/opinion/guests/469760,161GUC1.article

Pope Benedict XVI expressed his intolerance of Christian churches that are not Catholic by saying " ... the Catholic Church is the one true church, and other Christian bodies shouldn't be called churches."

It is very difficult to comprehend that such a learned man as Pope Benedict would issue such a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Los Angeles Times, the

Author: Maria Mackay

Source: Christian Today

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/we.stand.with.victims.of.terrorism.say.scottish.church.leaders/11459.htm

The Church of Scotland will join hundreds of other concerned people from across Scotland at Saturday’s ‘Scotland United Against Terror’ rally.

The rally, to be held at 1.30pm in Glasgow’s George Square,...

Source: The Boston Globe

https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/browse//the-boston-globe_9077/2007/07/06/

SEATTLE --Rhode Island's Episcopal bishop suspends a Seattle priest who says she is both a Christian and a Muslim.

The Reverend Ann Holmes Redding...