June 6, 2013
[World Council of Churches] “A new framework for negotiation for peace and unification of the Korean peninsula is the need of the hour…especially in the context that the armistice agreement declared 60 years ago lost its effect,” said Dr. Lee Jae-joung, former minister of the Ministry of Unification of the Republic of Korea at an international consultation on Asian peace and security being held in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, 3 to 6 June.
The international ecumenical...
June 3, 2013
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori gave the following address during the 25th anniversary Preaching Excellence Conference May 30 at the Roslyn Conference and Retreat Center near Richmond, Virginia.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal ChurchI want to invite us to consider what kinds of proclamation are likely to be...
May 21, 2013
[Anglican Communion News Service] A major conference on the relationship between Faith, Health and Healing was held in Birmingham, England, at the end of April under the auspices of the Anglican Health Network. Provinces were invited to send representatives to the conference and to an AHN provincial representatives’ meeting immediately following.
Those who gathered for the provincial representatives’ meeting reflected on the Faith, Health and Healing conference and on...
May 13, 2013
U.S. commission tracks key offenders; some optimism over new ‘watch list’ countries
May 13, 2013 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN
This year’s report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has Seventh-day Adventist human rights experts...
May 10, 2013
Global Episcopal Mission Network
9 May 2013
Bogotá, Colombia
AscensionThe Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal ChurchAre you feeling high and lifted up, in this rarefied air, at the end of a stimulating and encouraging conference? It’s a good day to celebrate Ascension. Yet we have to recognize that the band of disciples who hung around Jerusalem after Jesus’ execution didn’t...
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh
In a recent solidarity visit to Bangladesh, an ecumenical delegation was updated about the on-going persecution and attacks against religious...
In speech to Liberty dinner, Bennett promises active voice
Apr 30, 2013 Washington, D.C.
Mark Kellner, Adventist Review
Calling the freedom to worship “a core human right … that is under increasing threat around the world,” Andrew P. W. Bennett, Canada’s new Ambassador of Religious Freedom, pledged his nation’s support for those believers, worldwide, whose rights are...