Brits Making Mass Exodus From Methodist Church
The Methodist Church in Britain is hemorrhaging members and has been described by a leading religious affairs commentator as “a bit like an iceberg that’s just crumbling into the sea.”
Amid Iraqi Terror Crisis, Light of Christ Is Dawning
Before sending the first wave of military “advisers,” U.S. officials expressed reservations about putting combat “boots on the ground” in Iraq again to deal with a fierce Islamist terrorist threat in the country’s unstable northern regions.
China Pushes for ‘State-Approved’ Christian Theology
China is renewing and doubling its efforts to nationalize Christianity, a Chinese official recently announced.
Evangelical Anglicans Aim to Bridge Gulf Between Pentecostals and Pope
They don’t necessarily envision Baptists speaking in tongues or Pentecostals setting up shrines to honor the Virgin Mary. But a network of evangelical Episcopalians is at the forefront of a movement it calls “convergence,” which its leaders are careful to distinguish from another World Council of Churches-kind of organization.
West Africans Fill Churches to Pray for Deliverance From ‘Devil’ Ebola
People in Sierra Leone and Liberia filled churches on Sunday to seek deliverance from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, defying official warnings to avoid public gatherings to contain an epidemic that has killed nearly 1,000 people in West Africa.
Putin Building Church, Monasteries in the Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for two monasteries and a church that were demolished during Soviet times to be rebuilt in the Kremlin, the largest overhaul of the site’s architectural landscape in nearly a century.
