Roman Catholics in the United States are asking a question that touches on demographics and culture: what will the church look like in the coming years when at least 40 percent, and perhaps even a majority, of U.S. Catholics are Latino?
Category: World, United States, News Update
Campaigners on HIV and AIDS have welcomed a decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to remove entry restrictions to the United States based on HIV status and have called on other nations with similar policies to follow his example.
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Eight years after the United States faced its deadly terrorist attacks Americans believe Muslims in the country encounter more discrimination than any other religious groups.
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Supporters and opponents of a decision by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to allow men and women in open and monogamous relationships with persons of the same sex to be ordained as clergy, say they are considering the implications of the vote for the future of the denomination.
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Those involved with church-based efforts to change the detention system for US immigrants, who have often railed against the scheme, say they are encouraged by reforms sought by the administration of President Barack Obama.
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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.
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U.S. "mega-churches" - predominately large Protestant or Pentecostal churches, many without denominational affiliation - attract more younger and unmarried members than smaller and more established Protestant churches, a new study concludes.
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The Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) has been approved as one of 28 dioceses and dioceses-in-formation in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), which is comprised of 12 church organizations that have broken with the Anglican Church of Canada and The Episcopal Church over theological differences on issues such as human sexuality.
Category: News Update, Sexuality debate, Canada, United States, Anglican Communion

Seventeen women from Anglican parishes across Canada have returned from the 53rd annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), which took place from March 2 to 13 in New York City.
Category: News Update, Canada, United States