WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) _ An Iowa church is singing “hallelujah” after winning approval from the Waterloo city council to continue its outdoor services.
The council voted unanimously Monday to grant New Hope Missionary Baptist Church a noise variance.
That means the church can hold outdoor worship sessions on Sunday mornings this month.
Councilman Harold Getty says there were [...]
CHICAGO (AP) _ The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reports that it lost almost 91,000 members and 48 congregations last year.
In 2009, the denomination dropped to 4.5 million members and about 10,300 congregations, according to a report released Tuesday by David Swartling, the ELCA secretary.
Total offerings in congregations dropped by nearly 3 percent, to about [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) _ An Associated Press-Univision poll finds that younger Latinos in the U.S., and those who speak more English than Spanish, are much less likely to identify as Catholics than older Hispanics who mostly speak Spanish. And a growing number worship in evangelical or Pentecostal churches.
Overall, 62 percent of Hispanics identify as Catholic, but [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Former Senator Ted Stevens, who was killed Monday in a plane crash in his native Alaska, is being remembered as a friend of Christian radio.
National Religious Broadcasters President Frank Wright says Stevens was “a staunch defender of religious freedom” during his
40 years in the Senate.
NRB Vice President Bob Powers says that Stevens [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) _ Evangelical and Roman Catholic leaders are calling for 40 days of fasting and prayer before the upcoming November election.
The Rev. Jim Garlow, a San Diego pastor who has led opposition to gay marriage, says Christians will be asked to fast and pray from Sept. 20 to Oct. 30.
Garlow says public events [...]
SHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) _ The pastor of a church that supported the leader of a medical team whose 10 members were killed in Afghanistan says Tom Little was sharing God’s love through mercy ministry.
The bodies of the civilian volunteers, including Little and five other Americans, were flown to Kabul as friends and family denied Taliban [...]
BULGARIA (CNN) – CNN is reporting that archaeologists in Bulgaria claim they’ve found remains of John the Baptist while digging at the site of a 5th century monastery on the Black Sea. Tests will be conducted on the bone fragments found in an alabaster box. According to the Biblical account, John the Baptist [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FR) – The Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina has opened a new two month exhibit honoring 87-year old Cliff Barrows. Cliff was responsible for music at Billy Graham Crusades since the beginning in 1947. He has directed crusade choirs all over the world and is a member of the Gospel Music [...]
NASHVILLE, TN. (FR) – Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Singer Steven Curtis Chapman, has published a book about the loss of their young daughter in a tragic accident. Maria was killed in 2008 when Will Franklin Chapman was driving the family Toyota Land Cruiser into the driveway of their home in Franklin Tennessee. Mary Beth [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) _ Focus on the Family is laying off another 110 workers this month, leaving the Christian ministry with
750 employees — about half the staff it had in 2002.
Focus spokesman Gary Schneeberger says the cuts come amid a recession that has impacted donors. He says the current budget is
$105 million, $27 million [...]
