May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013
WASHINGTON
News that scientists had for the first time recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos prompted dire...
[Lambeth Palace -- Press Release] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said today that “all our prayers and mine” are with the family of Lee Rigby, the British soldier killed in Woolwich on Wednesday. In a joint press conference in Leicester with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, the Archbishop praised the responses of different faith groups to the incident and said this is “very much a time for communities to come together”.
The Archbishop made the...
- Johannes Reimer said: "the basic competence of the Church is reconciliation". Breaking news from Woolwich provides us with a pressing reason to explore this.
- B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement:
This week the World Health Organization is holding its annual assembly in Geneva. Mixed in among the pressing global health issues to be discussed are health conditions within the “occupied” Palestinian territories, as well as the “occupied Syrian” Golan. This agenda item is directly focused on Israel, the only such item which is country specific... Elio Masferrer Kan, doctor en antropología y miembro del sistema nacional de investigadores, ha concluido mediante un análisis del último censo del Instituto Nacional de Estadística en comparación con los publicados por la Iglesia Católica Romana que hay discrepancias considerables, tanto en la cantidad de feligreses, como en la cantidad de clérigos, monjas y monjes. Masferrer autor de La pluralidad religiosa en México, crisis y proyecciones cree que las estadísticas en su país “hacen...
- CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Craig Alan Satterlee was elected May 21 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the North/West Lower Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He was elected on the fifth ballot during the synod assembly May 19-21 in Lansing, Mich. “The church has done something bold by electing as bishop someone who has a disability and is legally blind. The playbook hasn’t been written yet, but the church and the world will take notice. This ...
[Gathering -- Press Release] Snowcapped mountains formed the background this week in Colorado when 87 Generation X and Millenial clergy met to explore a hopeful vision for the Episcopal Church. Participants came from all over the country from a variety of contexts for ministry. There was no agenda beyond the intention to build relationship by listening carefully for the values that motivate their ministry.
The conference was peer led, facilitated primarily by The Rev....
