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April 30, 2008, Fort Worth, Texas –
Clare J. Chapman, Chief Operating
Officer of the National Council of Churches (NCC) and a veteran
United Methodist ecumenist, has been honored by her denomination for
"her exceptional leadership."
April
22, 2008, Washington –
Using Earth Day resources developed by the
National Council of Churches, hundreds of congregations and
communities around the country are celebrating Earth Day this year,
recognizing their faithful call to protect God’s creation.
April 16, 2008, New York –
Krister Stendahl, a tireless ecumenist who
was dean and a member of the faculty of Harvard Divinity School and
a former bishop of Stockholm, Sweden, died Yesterday in Boston. He
was 86.
April 14, 2008, New York –
An experienced Mennonite editor has been
elected chair of the NCC's Uniform Series Committee.
April 10, 2008, Washington
– Faith groups and individuals from around the country sent
encouraging messages to Congress yesterday as the U.S. House of
Representatives passed the National Landscape Conservation System
Act by a vote of 278 to 140.
April 9, 2008, New York –
Symbols & Sanctity: the Objects of Religion,
a CBS interfaith religion special produced with the cooperation of the
NCC, The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a consortium of Jewish
organizations and The Islamic Society of North America, will be broadcast Sunday, April
27
April 7, 2008, Vatican City –
An elegantly
hand-lettered edition of the New Revised
Standard Version St. John's Bible was
presented Friday to a delighted Pope Benedict XVI.
April 3, 2008, Chicago
̶
The heads of the NCC and UCC and Pastor Otis Moss
III today addressed a press conference at Trinity United Church of Christ
to suggest the ministries of the former pastor and the congregation have
been distorted by some members of the media, and to call for pastors
around the nation to address the subject of race on Trinity Sunday, May
18.
April 1, 2008, New York –
Leaders and member communions of the National Council of Churches USA
are extending a warm welcome to Pope Benedict XVI when the pontiff
visits the United States April 15-20.
March 28, 2008, New York –
The rhetoric of the 2008 campaign is heating up, and the NCC general
secretary says candidates should follow the golden rule of ecumenism.
March 13, 2008,
New York –
As the fifth
anniversary of the March 17 invasion of Iraq approaches, the
general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA
repeated the message: the war has been a ‘disastrous mistake’
and should be brought to an end.
March 12, 2008,
New York –
Professor Dr. Lukas Vischer, 81, a
Presbyterian scholar and early leader in the worldwide Faith and
Order movement, died March 11.
March 9, 2008, Alexandria, Va.
̶ The
President of the National Council of Churches USA told participants in the
Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference that Christians have a biblical
obligation to help the poor and ease suffering around the world.
March 8, 2008, Alexandria, Va.
̶ Ecumenical
activists are "hopeful realists," NCC General Secretary Michael Kinnamon
told an Ecumenical Advocacy Days gathering Saturday night.
March 8, 2008, Alexandria, Va. ̶
A Mennonite "professor of peacebuilding" brought more than 700 religious
peace advocates to their feet this morning with a declaration that
security is the result of diplomacy and development, not military
intervention.
March 7, 2008, Alexandria, Va.
̶̶
More
than 700 people are here this weekend for the sixth annual Ecumenical
Advocacy Days week-end.
March 7, 2008, New York
̶
The General Secretary and heads of National Council of Churches member
communions have expressed shock and sorrow at the shootings on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
March 5, 2008, New York –
The editor of the National
Council of Churches' annual
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches commends the
report of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life's survey of the
U.S. religious landscape, and said the survey also raises
interesting
questions.
March 3, 2008, New York –
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels to meet Israeli and
Palestinian leaders in the wake of the chaos occasioned by Israel's
intervention in Gaza, senior U.S. church figures have written calling
for urgent action.
February 28, 2008, New York
–
NCC
General Secretary Michael Kinnamon has joined three faith leaders
representing the evangelical, Muslim and Jewish communities to ask
President Bush to sign legislation ending torture as an interrogation
technique.
February 21, 2008, New York –
The Rev.
Dr. Samuel Kobia’s decision not to seek a
second term as World Council of Churches general secretary
removes an “administrator with a pastoral heart” from an
important position of ecumenical leadership,
NCC General Secretary Kinnamon said.
February 21, 2008,
Washington –
This Earth Day, the National Council of Churches
Eco-Justice Programs is marking Earth Day Sunday (the Sunday closest to
Earth Day) by recognizing the interconnectedness of poverty and climate
change and offering a resource for worship, adult study, and youth
activities.
February 20, 2007,
Washington –
A Mass of
Christian Burial will be offered here today at Holy
Trinity Church for Father Walter J. Burghardt, 93,
renowned Jesuit theologian, who died February 16.
February 14, 2008, Belfast, Northern Ireland –
Amid historical religious and political divides, a U.S. interfaith
delegation met with church leaders, non-governmental organizations, and
government officials here to discuss how global climate change can help
inform the peace and reconciliation process in Northern Ireland.
February 14, 2008, New York ̶
The NCC's 2008 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches reports
on the results of a groundbreaking survey on church health care
ministries.
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