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ALC/ENI, TOKYO, Japan, October 9, 2007
The leader of Japan's largest grouping of churches is known for his sense of humor, Taxi Heathrow Airport which he says comes from the gospel. More
ALC/ENI, CAPE TOWN, South Africa, October 4, 2007
A World Council of Churches economist has criticized the global economic system for creating "material and spiritual poverty" and called for a people-centered economy in which morality replaces mathematics. More
ALC/ENI, India, September 27, 2007
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Church of South India has raised the equivalent of US$1 million for social projects, after most of its four million members each contributed at least 10 rupees, or 25 US cents, towards a special jubilee fund. More
ALC/ENI, Great Britain, September 12, 2007
The dignity of every human being - including suspected terrorists - is non-negotiable, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has told members of the Christian Muslim Forum during a lecture marking the sixth anniversary of 9/11. More
ALC/ENI, NEW YORK, USA, August 13, 2007
For years, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States has avoided some of the rancor over the issue of same-sex relationships that has divided the Episcopal (Anglican) Church and, to a lesser extent, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Methodist Church. More
ALC/ENI, August 13, 2007
After more than three years of trying to convince the Namibian government to allocate 100 Namibian dollars (US$14) a month to the poor, churches and non-governmental organizations in the country have decided to go it alone, and have selected a village near Windhoek to test their idea. More
ALC/ENI, TOKYO, Japan, August 7, 2007
The head of the National Christian Council in Japan has welcomed a U.S. House of Representatives resolution that demands Tokyo's formal apology for a system of sexual slavery that existed during the Second World War, and whose victims were euphemistically called "comfort women". More
ALC/ENI, SEOUL, Korea, July 31, 2007
The head of the World Council of Churches has joined the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea in denouncing the killing of a second Korean Christian hostage in Afghanistan, while the Korean denomination has called on the US and Afghanistan to negotiate the freeing of the hostages with the Taliban. More
ALC/ENI, NEW YORK, USA, July 25, 2007
US-based Jewish groups have praised a Vatican declaration that it will consider the elimination of a prayer of conversion that exists in the church's traditional Latin Mass. In 1963, Pope Paul VI declared that, following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the Tridentine Mass, as the service… More
ALC/ENI, GENEVA, Switzerland, June 28, 2007
More people in the world are living in cities than ever before, and this is leading to renewed interest in religion, and confounding those who predicted a growth of secularization, according to a new UN report. More
ALC/ENI, NEW YORK, USA, June 14, 2007
Members of an interfaith delegation from Peru are seeking public support in the United States for efforts to pressure a US corporation to lower the level of lead emissions from its smelter plant in their country. The plant has reportedly made the Peruvian city of La Oroya one of the world's most polluted places. More
ALC/ENI, COLONIA, Germany, June 8, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined other religious leaders and globalization critics in sending an anti-poverty message to leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations who are meeting in Germany. More
ALC/ENI, NEW DELHI, India, June 5, 2007
The Roman Catholic Church in India say it will give greater priority to marginalized groups such as Dalits, to people known as tribals and to the poor in admissions to its vast network of nearly 15 000 educational institutions. More
ALC/ENI, LONDON, Great Britain, May 30, 2007
The British government is urging faith-based schools in England and Wales to twin with similar establishments of other beliefs as part of a legal obligation, which comes into force on September 1. More
ALC/ENI, NEW DELHI, India, May 29, 2007
Church leaders in India say they are elated at a mass conversion ceremony in Mumbai said by organizers to have gathered nearly 100,000 people at which thousands of oppressed Dalits and nomadic people embraced Buddhism. More
ALC/ENI, PARIS, FRance, May 22, 2007
Two French Protestant churches have agreed to start discussions with the aim of creating a united denomination by 2013 bringing together Reformed and Lutheran Christians. More
ALC/ENI, Brazil, May 14, 2007
Neither Marxist nor capitalist systems can offer hope to Latin America, Pope Benedict XVI has told the continent's Roman Catholic bishops, as he urged them to make greater efforts to build up the Church. More
ALC/ENI, EDIMBURGO, Escocia, May 10, 2007
The leader of the biggest Protestant church in Scotland has paid tribute to British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process but criticized him for supporting US foreign policy. More
ALC/ENI, April 24, 2007
Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church has praised Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, who has died of heart failure in Moscow, for enabling a religious revival that took place across the former communist country during his presidency. More
ALC/ENI, LONDON, Great Britain, April 11, 2007
Leaders of Britain's Hindu community of more than 500 000 are asking to be given the same full cultural and religious freedoms enjoyed by other major religions in the United Kingdom, such as Christians, Muslims and Jews. "We are asking for the right to cremate our dead in the way they have been… More
ALC/ENI, GENEVA, Switzerland, April 10, 2007
The World Council of Churches is sponsoring a meeting hosted by the British agency Christian Aid in London from April 12 to 15 that will examine options for faith communities' participation in a proposed civil society campaign on climate. More
ALC/ENI, LUND, Sweden, March 26, 2007
Lutheran churches need to encourage their members to interpret the Scriptures using established principles, based on the life and teaching of Jesus, Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders Wejryd has told Lutherans from all over the world. He preached before about 1000 Christians gathered on 25 March in… More
ALC/ENI, UTRECHT, March 26, 2007
The Council of Churches in the Netherlands, where voters in 2005 rejected a draft constitution for the European Union, has urged the country's new government to come up with ideas on how to strengthen the 27-nation grouping. More
ALC/ENI, NAIROBI, Kenya, March 12, 2007
Church leaders in Kenya have joined those expressing anger at the Hollywood documentary on the life of Jesus, which alleges his resurrection and ascension never occurred, and that he had a son. More
ALC/ENI, NAIROBI, Kenya, March 12, 2007
Church leaders in Kenya have joined those expressing anger at the Hollywood documentary on the life of Jesus, which alleges his resurrection and ascension never occurred, and that he had a son. More
ALC/ENI, Germany, February 26, 2007
Proposals by Germany's family minister Ursula von der Leyen to triple the number of crèche places for young children by 2013 has led to disagreement between Protestant and Roman Catholic bishops. More
ALC/ENI, India, February 14, 2007
The Church hardly communicates with the youth of today and even in "so-called Christian countries" the majority of young people are Bible illiterate but well informed of the latest MTV programmes, says the head of the World Council of Churches. The Rev. Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the WCC,… More
ALC/ENI, UTRECHT, February 6, 2007
The British monarch Queen Elizabeth II has paid a rare visit to the Netherlands to mark the 400th anniversary of Amsterdam's English Reformed Church, which says it is the oldest English-language congregation outside Britain. More
ALC/ENI, Germany, February 5, 2007
Germany's Protestant churches are distributing thousands of postcards in 16 languages to schools and bars as part of a new campaign to encourage young people to get involved in projects to promote tolerance. More
ALC/ENI, January 31, 2007
New EU member Romania has the most restrictive law on religion in Europe, says a religious freedom watchdog group, noting that legislation was pushed through only days before the former communist country joined the European Union. More
ALC/ENI, LONDON, January 24, 2007
The Church of England, in acknowledging its involvement in the slave trade, will take part in an act of repentance by thousands of Anglicans, including its spiritual head, planned for 24 March. More
ALC/ENI, NAIROBI, January 24, 2007
African church leaders at the World Social Forum in Nairobi have urged governments to use the surrender of the leader of the Union of Islamic Courts of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, as the basis for a peace initiative for the war torn country. © Agencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Comunicación… More