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Council of Churches Joins with 'Save Darfur' Coalition
Communities across North America are urged to engage in interfaith
activities designed to raise public awareness about the growing
genocide in Darfur.
more...
Darfur:
30 Days Is Far Too Long to Wait for Help, Says Humanitarian
Agency
Global humanitarian agency Church World Service today called
on U.S. citizens to immediately pressure the United Nations
and world bodies to intervene more quickly and definitively
to protect more than one million black Africans threatened
by the escalating crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.. more...
The
Reagan Mantle
This past Friday (June 11), President Reagan's funeral gave
a theme to several, but not all. more...
People
of Faith and Goodwill Urged To Leave a Light On . . . For
Dignity, For Peace, For Reconciliation
In response to the troubling recent events, The Interfaith
Alliance, the nation’s largest interfaith organization,
launched Lights for Dignity a faith-based, grassroots campaign.
more...
9/11
exhibit unveiled in historic chapel
St. Paul’s display honors the heroic efforts of volunteers
of September 11. more...
Three-way
partnership aims to improve health care in Africa
Two United Methodist-related entities and a research hospital
have entered a partnership to advance health care in Africa
by training medical providers to respond more effectively
to infectious diseases. more...
A
Report on the Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United
States
The Review Board believes that the overwhelming majority of
priests serving the Church in the United States fulfill their
roles honorably and chastely. According to Church records,
however, there were credible allegations that several thousand
priests, comprising four percent of priests in ministry over
the last half-century, committed acts of sexual abuse of minors.
There appears to have been a significant surge in acts of
abuse beginning in the 1960s and continuing into the mid-1980s.
The fallout resulting from this epidemic of abuse and the
shortcomings in the response of a number of bishops and other
Church leaders to that misconduct continues to this day. more...
The
Internet: More Popular than God?
The average teen is probably spending more time on the Internet
each week than participating in religious activities. more...
Super
Bowl Sleaze
This years Super Bowl was more sexually explicit than just
the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake incident. There is
something you can do about it. more...
Joint
Statement on Antisemitism by the Presidents of the Council
of Christians and Jews
Jan. 27, 2004 - Since its inception sixty years ago during
the darkest days of World War Two, the Council of Christians
and Jews (CCJ) has continued to confront the evil of antisemitism
with a message of healing and mutual respect between our communities.
more...
Relief
agencies face long haul in rebuilding Iranian city of Bam
Jan. 13, 2004 - The city of Bam, a once-peaceful and graceful
Iranian haven of date trees and historical sites, lies in
ruins more than two weeks after an earthquake struck on Dec.
26, leading to the deaths of at least 30,000 people. more...
Church
World Service Shelters Survivors of Iranian Earthquake
Church World Service is assisting the thousands who survived
the December 26 earthquake in Bam, Iran, with an emergency
grant of $30,000 to purchase and distribute emergency shelter
materials. more...
Neighborhood
reunion
TV biography chronicles life and times of ‘Mister Rogers.’more...
Church
bells ring in boycott
Some religious leaders say efforts to ease the plight
of migrant workers is akin to Jesus reaching out to the downtrodden.
It’s a five-minute walk to Taco Bell from Mitch
Webb’s home in Dunedin. He used to eat there a few times
a month. But he stopped going to America’s version of
Mexican fast food 21/2 years ago, when he joined the boycott.
more...
Jews
resurfacing in Cuba
For Moises Rodriguez, growing up Jewish in today’s Cuba
means spending hours each week studying Judaism and its teachings
and the Hebrew language. more...
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