The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) is teaching residents in northwestern Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp about HIV/AIDS, so that they will spread the knowledge when they return to their home countries.
From the Watertown Daily Times : †I can’t even begin to express the frustration of the established members of the church, the people who have been here for a long time and who hired him as the pastor,†said
Kyiv - On 1 September 2006 the experimental course "Christian ethics in the Ukrainian culture" for first-grade pupils was to start at 100 Kyiv schools out of 527. Vitalii Zhuravskyi, assistant head of the Kyiv City Administration (KCA), said this
Kyiv - On 31 August 2006 the High Administrative Court overturned a decision of the Regional Administration in western Ukraine's Ternopil Region (TRA) and returned Holy Trinity Church in the village of Rokhmaniv, Shumskyi District, to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow
As a debate rages in the UK over the value of multiculturalism, thousands of churches in Britain and Ireland are preparing to mark Racial Justice Sunday.
A Scottish gay group has criticised an 'unholy alliance' of critics towards the nine Glasgow fire-fighters who were reprimanded for snubbing a gay pride march last June, after the Archbishop of Glasgow and a BNP spokesperson defended the public servants.
World faith leaders meeting in Japan have issued a Kyoto protocol for religions calling on people of religious conviction to assume responsibility for confronting violence in their own communities through what it calls "shared security" - writes Hisashi Yukimoto for
World Council of Churches' (WCC) general secretary the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia has called for a comprehensive ecumenical Christian and interfaith response in seeking lasting peace in the Middle East.
Cardinal Michel Sabbah, Roman Catholic Archbishop in Jerusalem, Israel, has signed a joint inter-denominational statement criticising Christians that hold the belief that modern Israel should be defended in order to fulfil Biblical prophecies.
Campaigners have expressed their hopes that a meeting this week between Israel's Chief Rabbis and the Archbishop of Canterbury, will not lead to a softening of the Archbishop's stance on disinvestment in companies profiting from the illegal occupation of Palestinian
Recording artist Earnest Pugh received "Male Vocalist of the Year" nod at the 1st Annual En Sound Music Awards on Saturday, August 19, 2006 as his album continues to climb the Billboard® chart this week, positioning himself at #35 and
Standing in the small, fluorescent-lighted room that served as George Washington University's Muslim prayer area, Amin Al-Sarraf pointed to the six-foot-high plastic partition dividing the space. Al-Sarraf grew up the eldest of four children in leafy Pasadena, Calif., with an
