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.
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.
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.
The White House condemned rocket attacks against Israel that reached as far as Tel Aviv and expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself on Tuesday.
The Christian community in Jordan and Lebanon has become a key source of practical and emotional support for thousands of Syrians who have lost everything.
Born without eyes and a mental disability that left his head misshapen, a little boy named Sifle was instantly thought to be a curse to his family and community. In India, children born with such deformities and diseases rarely stand a chance of living a full and happy life—if they survive at all. Many, such as Sifle, are neglected or abandoned as parents try to escape the embarrassment and financial burden of caring for a child with special needs.
