The Roman Catholic Church's Year of St. Paul ended with a flourish on June 28, as Pope Benedict XVI announced that scientists had authenticated the first-century saint's earthly remains under a church in Rome.
Category: World, Europe, News Update
Democracy should be restored in Honduras, says the head of the Latin American Council of Churches, who has expressed deep concern about violence occurring in the Central American country.
Category: World, Central / South America, News Update

Rev. Barbara Andrews, executive director of the Sorrento Retreat and Conference Centre in B.C. for seven years, has been elected suffragan bishop for the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (APCI).
Category: Canada, House of Bishops, News Update

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto has unveiled a controversial exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which will run until Jan. 3.
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A new North American group claiming to embrace "traditional Anglican values" will not last long, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop has predicted.
Category: United States, Canada, News Update
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) elected its first archbishop and ratified a constitution and canons at its first Provincial Assembly in Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex. from June 22 to 25.
Category: Canada, World, Anglican Communion, United States, News Update
Canadian Lutherans are gathering for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada's (ELCIC) biennial National Convention, which will take place in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia campus from June 25 to 28.
Category: Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, News Update
The Episcopal Diocese of Cuba held a special electoral synod on June 19 and 20 but after 10 rounds of voting, no new bishop was elected to replace Bishop Miguel Tamayo Zaldívar who has served as interim bishop for six years and plans to retire.
Category: World, Cuba, News Update

The Israeli-Palestinian dispute over land in the occupied territories has come to a Montreal courtroom this week. Lawyers for the West Bank village of Bil’in are suing developers Green Park International and Green Mount International, which are registered in Quebec, for building settlements on land that was confiscated from the village by Israel.
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The head of the World Council of Churches has warned of a backlash in Europe against migrants and refugees, after gains by anti-immigration parties in elections to the European Union parliament.
Category: World Council of Churches, World, Europe, News Update