Editor’s Note: Presbyterian Evangelical Fellowship (PEF) is one of the four organizations that worked together to start the Presbyterian Church in America. In addition to their decades of work doing and promoting evangelism in local churches in the US, they have also been involved as a sending agency for missionaries that sense a call to... Continue Reading

BY MICHAEL MCNUTT, The Oklahoman Passage of a bill to require the owner of church property to be clearly stated in the deed or trust agreement would violate long-held principles of law and could lead the state down a “slippery slope” of becoming entangled in church affairs, religious leaders told a House panel Thursday. The... Continue Reading

By Angela Abbamonte, Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Are U.S. churchgoers stingy? That’s one possible conclusion from a newly updated report that shows if parishioners tithed the biblically recommended 10 percent of their income—instead of their current 2.56 percent—an extra $161 billion would be flowing to charity. The report, published by Illinois-based research firm empty... Continue Reading

Christian Examiner staff report FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. —More than 500 people turned out Sept. 29 for a support rally for a north Georgia school cheer squad who has been banned from using religious messages in their football game banners. The policy change came after a spectator complained that the teens used a large banner reading... Continue Reading

Miriam Rozen, The Texas Lawyer For a U.S. Supreme Court justice who remains mum during oral arguments, Clarence Thomas shared a lot on Wednesday during a 90-minute conversation before an audience of 2,300 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Appearing on stage with Theodore B. Olson, former U.S. solicitor general, Thomas began the evening with... Continue Reading

Hope Award: Campus Clubs teaches poor children about the value of work, and their own value in Christ: ‘Just because you’re in the ‘hood doesn’t mean the ‘hood is in you’ Jamie Dean, World Magazine MACON, Ga.—For some three dozen middle-school students packed into a tiny chapel attached to First Presbyterian Church (FPC) in downtown... Continue Reading

By Hilary White. Life Site News Chris Klicka, a major figure in the worldwide effort to provide legal protection for homeschoolers is seriously ill with complications related to multiple sclerosis. The family and colleagues of Klicka, an attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), said he is not likely to return to his... Continue Reading

Lutheran theologian Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the Church of Norway’s ecumenical and international council, has been chosen as the top executive of the World Council of Churches. His election as general secretary took place on August 27 in Geneva during a meeting of the WCC Central Committee. Tveit, 48, will succeed Samuel Kobia,... Continue Reading

Oct 1, 2009 The number of Americans expressing support for abortion is clearly declining, leaving the nation now evenly divided on the issue, according to results from a Pew survey released on Thursday. The survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People &... Continue Reading

Manila (ENI). Philippine church leaders have blamed “man’s sins” as the cause of massive floods following a tropical storm that claimed more than 240 lives and adversely affected almost two million people. The floods submerged most of metropolitan Manila and neighboring provinces following the nine-hour storm “Ketsana” on 26 September, locally known as “Ondoy”. The... Continue Reading