Three out of ten of ARP Mission schools in Pakistan were officially de-nationalized on June 12, 2009, and handed over to the Mission on Aug. 8. The schools are a large Girl’s high school in Sahiwal, a small three-room elementary school in Burewala, and a large elementary school in Chichawatni. The schools were nationalized 37... Continue Reading

MINNEAPOLIS – (AP) Even though the Rev. Mark Chavez believes the leaders of his church made a decision in direct contradiction of the Bible by lifting a ban on sexually active, monogamous gays and lesbians as clergy, he said he’s staying with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. “I’m not leaving,” Chavez said Friday night,... Continue Reading

The Presbyterian Lay Committee on July 27, 2009 filed a friend of the court brief with the U. S. Supreme Court on behalf of St James Parish in Newport Beach, Calif., following a California Supreme Court ruling that awarded the congregation’s property to its former denomination, The Episcopal Church. The PLC brief argues that the... Continue Reading

MIAMI (AP) — Descendants of two of the country’s most influential evangelical leaders — Billy Graham and the late D. James Kennedy — are feuding over control of a Florida megachurch that is a bedrock of the religious right. Under the leadership of Kennedy, the former pastor who died in 2007, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church... Continue Reading

Update from the 178th Synod Meeting of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (The Covenanters), taken from the Wall of the denomination’s Facebook Page. Wednesday, June 23rd The President of the Board of Trustees of Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, RPTS, Elder Rich Holdeman of the Bloomington, Indiana Reformed Presbyterian Church presented the report... Continue Reading

Update from the 178th Synod Meeting of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (The Covenanters), taken from the Wall of the denomination’s Facebook Page. Monday, June 21st Dr. Dennis Prutow, Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the retiring moderator, opened the Synod with a message from Mark 1:21-28,... Continue Reading

  YORK, ENGLAND (ANS)—In a move which is likely to please some and disappoint others, the Church of England’s ruling General Synod has voted to ordain women as bishops, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports on its website.   The BBC says the Synod also approved a code of practice aimed at reassuring opponents of... Continue Reading

  SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Layman Online reported  that on a 395-286-9 vote Thursday, June 26, 2008, delegates to the 218th Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly passed a resolution to provide up to $2 million "for the purpose of sharing the cost of legal fees defending our Constitution against the New Wineskins non-geographic presbytery... Continue Reading

The Presbyterian Church (USA) lost 57,572 members in 2007, the worst decline in decades, according to the official statistics [Editors note: the original URL (link) referenced in this article is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.] released by Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick on June 21, 2008. That leaves the denomination with 2,209,546... Continue Reading

The Layman Online reports that the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, of San Francisco, Calif., was elected moderator of the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) on June 21, 2008.  He was elected on the second ballot with 55 percent of the vote, after receiving 48 percent on the first ballot. Moderators must be elected... Continue Reading