Maybe religion really is the opiate of the masses—just not the way Karl Marx imagined.

The United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, has approved a recommendation to boycott products produced in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.

Several Christian denominations in Malawi, including Anglicans, Presbyterians and pentecostals, have established an organization to help improve management, financial and administrative skills of churches in the southern African nation.

James E. Solheim, best known as the Episcopal Church’s news director in an era bookended by the election of Anglicanism’s first female bishop and the ordination of its first openly gay bishop, died August 8 after several weeks’ hospitalization.

As the 2012 London Olympic Games winds toward its conclusion on August 12, so-called “street pastors” have been helping visitors make sense of an event spread over 13 venues in the British capital.

Protestant churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo have issued a “cry of distress” following increased killing and displacement of civilians in the fighting between the army and rebels in the eastern parts of the country.

A broad spectrum of U.S. religious groups—Christian, Jewish and Muslim—are condemning killings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that authorities described as an act of “domestic terrorism.”

While the violence between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria is the worst between members of the two faiths since the Bosnian war of 1992-1995, the sectarian conflict is driven by poverty, inequality and injustice, according to a high level Christian-Muslim taskforce comprising the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Royal Jordanian Aal Al Bayt Institute (RABIIT).

PRESBYTERIAN minister and former MP, Rev. Walter McLean was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians on June 4. The […]