Posts Tagged ‘pastor’
Causes
From Africa to Asia, offended Muslims vent anger on Christian churches
Across much of the Muslim world, more than two weeks of backlash to the internet video "Innocence of the Muslims" has occasionally been directed at Christians, from computer hacks to church burnings.
Causes
Kazakhstan jails pastor, considers extradition to Uzbekistan
A former Uzbek house church pastor is in a Kazakhstan jail, awaiting a ruling whether he will be returned to his native country, even as Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court considers whether to declare him a refugee from almost-certain...
News
Mars Hill Bible Church names Rob Bell’s successor
Mars Hill Bible Church has appointed a new teaching pastor, months after founding pastor and well-known author Rob Bell departed for California.
Features
Churches shifting summer worship from Sunday to Wednesday nights
As New England sweltered in early July, Sunday mornings came and went without a single soul showing up for worship in the hot, stuffy sanctuary of First Congregational Church of Salem, N.H. Even the pastor stayed home.
News
Late Jesuit and ex-congressman Robert Drinan accused of attempted sex assault
A popular online advice columnist has said that the late Rev. Robert Drinan, a famed Jesuit priest and onetime Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, tried to kiss and fondle her in the 1970s when she was 18 or 19 years old.
Featured
Monsignor William Lynn convicted in landmark Catholic sex abuse case
A Philadelphia priest was convicted today of one count of child endangerment, becoming the first cleric in the Catholic Church’s long-running clergy abuse scandal to be tried and found guilty of shielding molesters.
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Arts & Culture
As Cornerstone wraps up, Wild Goose Festival takes off
Demon Hunter. Vengeance Rising. Payable on Death.
Since 1984, these and other Christian heavy metal bands have been congregating every summer in a field near Chicago for the Cornerstone Festival. And for much of the 1980s an...
Arts & Culture
Museum of Biblical Art raises its profile amid array of challenges
When art historian Bruce Boucher wanted to reunite the three panels of a huge 14th-century altarpiece from three different countries, the Italian lender of one of the pieces had one condition: the finished product had to be sho...
News
Donations to religious institutions decline for second straight year
Post-recession America is beginning to open its wallet to charities again, but is not giving as generously to religious institutions.
Arts & Culture
Hutterites blast ‘exploitative’ show on National Geographic Channel
Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a "distorted and exploitative version" of life inside a little-known Christian sect.