Rome The Vatican has severely criticized "liturgical abuses" that include the concelebration of the eucharist by Roman Catholic priests and ministers of Protestant denominations. The criticism came in a document, Redemptionis...
Category: June/July 2004, World
London The world has become a more dangerous place because of the failure to tackle terrorism by non-military means, said a Church of Scotland inquiry into anti-terror operations. The Church and Nation Committee of the...
Category: June/July 2004, World
The diocese of Oxford has created the first church in the Church of England that will exist only on the World Wide Web. The diocese announced the appointment of its first Web pastor, Alyson May Leslie at the recent Christian...
Category: June/July 2004, United Kingdom / Ireland
Bavi Edna "Nedi" Rivera was elected bishop suffragan in the diocese of Olympia in May, making her the first Hispanic woman bishop and the 12th woman bishop in the history of the Episcopal Church in the United States. The...
Category: June/July 2004, United States, ECUSA
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia has elected its second Maori primate, Archbishop Te Whakahuihui Vercoe. Archbishop Vercoe, 75, was installed as primate on May 14. He succeeds Bishop John Paterson of...
Category: June/July 2004, Asia / Pacific
Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ has become a surprise hit in the Arab world, among both Muslims and Christians, who often have different motivations for viewing the controversial movie. While Christian Arabs,...
Category: June/July 2004, Middle East, Film
Warsaw A Polish Roman Catholic priest has won a defamation case against Poland's main ex-communist newspaper, Trybuna, after suing it for describing Pope John Paul II as a "simpleton curate." Supreme Court judge Gerard...
Category: June/July 2004, Europe
Does spirituality animate college and university students engaged in the arts and humanities more than their counterparts studying science or business? Apparently yes, says a new survey conducted by the University of...
Category: June/July 2004, United States, Culture