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U.K. Churches Seek to Counter Far-Right Politics
The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church are urging their member churches to take action against far-right and racist politics ahead of the European elections on June 4.
186 churches sue UMC North Georgia Conference for halting disaffiliation process
More than 180 congregations in Georgia have filed a lawsuit after their regional body of the United Methodist Church refused to allow them to disaffiliate amid a denominational schism over homosexuality.
10 Reasons Many Churches Aren't Evangelistic (Update)
Eighteen months ago, I reported on a Twitter poll that asked why churches aren't evangelistic. Since that time, I have followed up by asking the same question of church leaders in both evangelistic and non-evangelistic churches.
Churches Campaign to Restore Int'l Food Aid to North Korea
As international sanctions worsen the food crisis in North Korea, many of its Christian neighbors in the south are calling for unconditional humanitarian assistance especially to the weak and vulnerable in the isolated Communist regime.
Six Churches Destroyed in Nigeria Islamic Violence
At least six churches were destroyed in the last few days in Northern Nigeria as a result of the violence by members of a radical Islamic group.
Who are the outcasts in (some) churches
The church is supposed to be a place of welcome and refuge. But, for far too many people, it is a place of judgment and alienation.
Western Churches and the Wrong Side of History
If Jesus wrote a letter to the American Church in 2015, what would He say? Maybe what the Church around the world is saying now.
Churches More Informal, Diverse than a Decade Ago
More worship services today include drums, jumping and shouting or dancing, raising hands in praise, calling out "amen," visual projection equipment, applause, and speaking by people other than leaders compared to 1998, the National Congregations Study shows.
Churches Urged to Address Challenges on World Environment Day
In marking World Environment Day on Saturday, the National Council of Churches in India urged churches, related-organizations and agencies to celebrate and respond to environmental concerns that are due to human activities.
Churches Robbed on Christmas, Pastors Pray For Burglars
Two Pennsylvania churches, which were robbed over the holiday weekend, have reached out to the burglars in prayer.
‘Less Santa, more Jesus;’ Churches observing ‘Bless Friday’ instead of ‘Black Friday’
On a day when many Americans are crowding the stores for “Black Friday” bargains, a group of churches will instead do acts of charity as part of an annual observance called “Bless Friday.”
Open up the churches now
Something is radically wrong when dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of people can gather at the local grocery store, constantly walking through most of the facility, but not be allowed to attend their local church service.
UMC Baltimore-Washington Conference allows 23 churches to disaffiliate amid LGBT schism
Twenty-three congregations near Washington, D.C., have been given the green light to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church amid the mainline Protestant denomination's ongoing debate over homosexuality.
5 moves churches are making in the second COVID spike
Many areas are seeing a COVID spike a second time, some even greater than the first spike. We have been communicating with hundreds of pastors each week who contact Church Answers with questions and information.
PPP kept 75% of churches, Christian organizations that took loans fully staffed: survey
Some 75% of Christian churches and organizations that applied for and received forgivable loans under the federal government’s coronavirus relief program for small businesses, known as the Paycheck Protection Program, say the loans helped keep their operations fully staffed and many of them have already been forgiven.
Kentucky Baptists Propose Banning Churches From Giving to CBF Over LGBT Hiring Policy
Leaders in the Kentucky Baptist Convention have endorsed a recommendation to end the convention's cooperation with dually aligned churches that continue providing support to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in the wake of CBF's new policy ending a ban on LGBT employees.
Conservative Presbyterians Contest Soliciting Churches Claim
A group of conservative Presbyterian churches say accusations made by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Mississippi Presbytery are based on misinformation.
