An independent Orthodox priest in Kazakhstan who publicly opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine remains in solitary pre-trial detention on drug charges his supporters call “fabricated.”
IMB's missionaries describe worship in their individual contexts, celebrating the global chorus given to our creator.
A grenade attack near a Catholic cathedral and radio station in the southern Philippines on Sunday (Dec. 22) could have been aimed at a military advance team for a presidential visit as much as the Christian sites, according to local reports.
A group of local Catholics gathered outside Melbourne prison on Christmas Eve to sing carols for Cardinal George Pell.
Bill Langley, senior pastor of Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, will work with the IMB to help Southern Baptist churches that have no recent connection to the mission agency.
In recent weeks, CNA has been covering a Vatican financial scandal involving a multi-million-dollar investment fund, money donated by Catholics to support charity and Vatican ministries, and a pair of banks linked to money-laundering and bribery allegations.
To carry out the continuing reform of the Church requires a willingness to change and a commitment to personal conversion, Pope Francis said Saturday, during his annual Christmas greeting to the bishops and cardinals of the Roman Curia.
Ethnic rebels who closed more than 100 churches in eastern Burma (Myanmar) in 2018 have allowed 51 Baptist churches to reopen, sources said.
Of the top 10 missionary-sending churches in the SBC, five are in the Raleigh-Durham area. "[The area's culture] has created a dynamic push of people out," says Paul Chitwood. "It all goes back to leadership."
Maya Forstater said that the ruling against her "removes women's rights and the right to freedom of belief and speech".
Gavin Ashenden, a former Honorary Chaplain to the Queen in the Church of England who was consecrated a bishop in a Continuing Anglican ecclesial community, will be received into the Catholic Church on Sunday.
