It would be good to launch talks between churches in 2013, Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej stated on Saturday.
“It is good for church representatives to gather and launch a humane and friendly dialogue, while other issues between churches can be left for a later time,†Irinej said during signing of a contract on the construction of a complex commemorating the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (306-337) in Niš.
Three Serbian Orthodox churches in the Gornji Karlovac Eparchy in Croatia have been broken into in the past several days.
Police are looking for unidentified perpetrators who broke into St. George’s Church in Rijeka.
Churches and religious communities in Serbia have encouraged organ donation when aimed at preservation of human lives. This was the conclusion of a round table in Belgrade today, entitled, “The role of churches and religious communities in the national transplantation programâ€.
NATO Allied Joint Force Command Naples Mark Fitzgerald was in Kosovo on Thursday. He told reporters in Priština that Kosovo police, KPS, and EULEX could in the future guard the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) churches and monasteries.
Officials say a fourth church has been hit by firebombs in Malaysia amid a growing dispute in the country over the use of the word “Allah†by non-Muslims. Bishop Philip Loke says two firebombs were believed to have been thrown at his Good Shepherd Lutheran Church early Saturday but missed
Three Malaysian churches have been firebombed in as tensions over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims intensify. The churches in the capital Kuala Lumpur were hit by incendiary devices early on Friday ahead of planned protests by Muslims over a High Court decision to end a ban on the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims.
The pope makes it easier for Anglicans to convert to Catholicism en masse—but creates a rod for his own back
SINCE the Church of England voted 17 years ago to admit women to the priesthood, disenchanted individual members of the 80m-strong worldwide Anglican Communion have been quietly converting to Roman Catholicism. Since 2003, when the Episcopalian church, the American branch of the Communion, first ordained an openly gay bishop, the number of alienated conservatives has been swollen by those dismayed by their Church’s growing tolerance of homosexuality.
Many traditionalist Anglicans, nevertheless, have held back, reluctant to sacrifice their liturgy and heritage. On October 20th Pope Benedict offered them a way out of their unease and into the Catholic church. In so doing, he created a new headache for the beleaguered Anglican leadership—and resuscitated an old conundrum for the Vatican. …
