SingaporeA Roman Catholic newspaper has cleared its first hurdle in a legal battle to force the Malaysian government to reverse a ban against the use
Anglicans are being invited to sing the hymn Amazing Grace as a statement of faith, and to send their video to the national church. What
New YorkPope Benedict XVI, head of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, capped a six-day visit to the United States, his first as pontiff, with a
The cover of the pamphlet makes you want to look away: a naked child – perhaps a teenager – holds a younger child whose skin
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) said the government of Canada will match, dollar for dollar, donations earmarked for victims of the Burma
Much-needed relief for victims of the cyclone that hit Burma on May 2 are slowly making their way to devastated villages. The Primate’s World Relief
RomeChaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of the northern Iraq city of Mosul, who was kidnapped in February by armed attackers, was found dead on
Oxford, OhioTed Turner, who once called Christianity “a religion for losers” has launched a joint initiative with Lutherans and Methodists in the United States to
Mathematics teacher and prayer-workshop leader Sybil MacBeth knows about math-anxiety. “It’s like a panic attack in the face of pages full of numbers and equations,”
Rev. Giles Fraser, vicar of the Anglican parish of Putney, U.K. and a columnist with the Guardian and Church Times newspapers, thinks the Christian church
Citing financial difficulties, the Anglican Sisters of St. John the Divine (SSJD) and the diocese of Montreal have jointly agreed that the sisters will leave
WCC general secretary Samuel Kobia Juba, SudanOne of the lessons that a delegation of church leaders has learned from a recent visit to Sudan is
As Rayyan Hamoudi on the Canadian television series Little Mosque on the Prairie, actor Sitara Hewitt plays the devout Muslim daughter of a Muslim father
Anglican Journal editor Leanne Larmondin travelled to south Sudan from March 26 to April 3 with an international, ecumenical delegation representing the World Council of
Welsh Anglican clergy narrowly voted on April 2 against a measure to allow women to be appointed to the episcopate. The measure was supported unanimously
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, national leader of the Anglican Church of Canada, lent his voice in March to those criticizing the jailing of six Northern Ontario
FreeRice.com, an online vocabulary game run by the World Food Programme, uses banner advertising to pay for rice for the world’s hungry. Since last October,
Area: 2.5 million sq. km.; the largest country in Africa; about the size of Ontario and Quebec combinedCities: Capital: Khartoum /Omdurman, Port Sudan, Juba (capital
Rev. Michael Heller, winner of the 2008 Templeton Prize, speaks at a news conference in New York. New YorkRev. Michael (Michal) Heller, a Polish Roman
TOO COOL: From the air, the roofs of Sudanese houses look like tiny coolie hats. The traditional huts are made of mud, clay and grass