Essay: Can ecumenism survive some Orthodox churches’ resistance to ordained women?
ANNA PIELA, a visiting scholar in religious studies and gender at Northwestern University in the US, writes, in an article published by Religion News Service, that the issue of female ordination is threatening to define the future of ecumenism and Orthodoxy at large…
Churches join “cries” for remedy to US gun violence
The World Council of Churches has joined “the urgent cries of churches and church people for real remedies to the gun violence” in the US in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend which have left some 29 people dead and dozens injured. Twenty people were killed and dozens more injured when a […]
Global Christian bodies make stand against Trump’s immigration bans
Three global Christian organisations have issued a joint statement expressing concern over US President Donald Trump’s recently announced immigration polices and particularly targeting the decision to indefinitely suspend admission for Syrian refugees as an “abysmal failure of compassion and responsibility”. The World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and the Lutheran World Federation released the joint […]
Church bodies call for US to reconsider $US38 billion in military aid to Israel
Global and US church bodies have joined in calling for the US Government to reconsider a $US38 billion military aid package to Israel, saying that more weapons were the “last thing” needed in the “unresolved conflict” in Israel and Palestine. In a joint statement issued following a “consultation” on the crisis in Israel and Palestine […]