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The Vatican official responsible for links with other churches has rejected suggestions of a "standstill" in the search for Christian unity - writes Anli Serfontein .

Margaret Harding holds a display of handmade jeweled bracelets designed by church member Dinah Veler.

A top Vatican official has joined other global Christian leaders in the eastern German town where Martin Luther broke with the papacy, at a tree-planting ceremony that looks to closer ties on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation which will take place in 2017.

The Spittoon points to a new paper, Drawing the history of the Hutterite population on a genetic landscape: inference from Y-chromosome and mtDNA genotypes , which I've been meaning to look at more closely.

In his greeting at a festive ceremony on 30 October in the Golden Hall of Augsburg town hall, Friedrich said, "Today we are celebrating the fact that the decades of patient dialogue between Lutherans and Catholics have paid off and we can now together subscribe to a differentiated consensus in the doctrine on justification.

Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminarya 'the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.

When I want to burrow deeper into a word or concept, I sometimes turn to sign language.

The Holy Fathera 'Pope Benedict XVIa 'offers to let Episcopalians and other Anglicans of Catholic disposition join the Roman Catholic Church, while retaining characteristics of their Anglican identity.

Covington Utilities Auth-ority has set Tuesday as fall townwide trash cleanup day.

There's a lot that's warm and fuzzy about the service-learning project going on in Leslie Boylan's seventh-grade homeroom at Ames Middle School.

SOURCE: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman Although there's been no breaking news over the last few days regarding the proposed sale of radio station KFUO , St.

Salem Evangelical Lutheran parishioner Pat Shedlock explains the history of a rooster weathervane that long roosted atop the original log Salem building.

OK, so Joplin is not the polka capital of the world. But if you happened to drive by Peace Lutheran Church at 2002 Wisconsin Ave.

This week I received my copy of The Lutheran Study Bible released by Concordia Publishing House.

Stop. This one's going to be heavy, so let's take a deep breath. Now, let's ask ourselves a question: Why are there so many churches around here?Why are there so many different denominations, subsets of denominations, divisions and practices within the Christian faith? What's the point? Five hundred years ago there was a movement in which the ...

Sadly, another mainstream Protestant church has broken with Scriptural teaching and opted for the "me-ology" and feel-good theology of too many of today's churches.

Mark Deckard to John Piper: 'I cannot associate this tornado with the hand of God' Mark Deckard is pastor of Church on the Lake , Grand Lake , OK , and author of .

A Northland family that has battled tragedy received some help from several 'Divas' on Saturday afternoon.

By Joyce Duriga Catholic News Service CHICAGO - National leaders of the Catholic Church and Lutheran World Federation gathered in Chicago Oct.

Organized religion was already having a tough time before the fall of 2008. The Roman Catholic Church had closed many small churches and schools.