New Zealand church boosts youth links with new club
A church congregation from New Zealand whose members are all over 55 is reconnecting with its community\'s next generation by laying on a special Friday night youth club..
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Parishioners to create church from beer cans and tyres
Designed by architect Lee Ivett, the proposed new building for Colston Milton Parish Church, in the north of Glasgow, is part of a larger community campus to be owned and built by the people of Milton.
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Olav Fykse Tveit elected WCC general secretary
Norwegian theologian and pastor Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, 48, was elected 7th general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Thursday 27 August during its Central Committee meeting. Tveit will be the youngest general secretary since Willem A. Visser \'t Hooft who had led the WCC while it was in process of formation and following its founding assembly 61 years ago.
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World Council of Churches opens Central Committee Meeting to elect new leader
The largest ecumenical church body in the world will elect its new general secretary within the next week during a Central Committee meeting that opened Wednesday in Geneva.
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Pacific Island Church told to take lead role in climate change
Leader of a global alliance of Reformed Churches has told Vanuatu Presbyterians that the Church must follow "God's will" by taking a leading role in efforts to reverse the effects of climate change.
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Victorian Festival of Refugees - A Celebration of Diversity and Freedom
On Sunday August 30, the Victorian Council of Churches' (VCC) annual Festival of Refugees is set to fill Box Hill Town Hall with traditional performances from Sudan , Vietnam , West Papua, Sri Lanka and many more.
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Lutherans debate human sexuality
Voting members are considering the \"Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust\" statement, which was drafted by a task force and released in February, and are due to vote on Friday.
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Fijian defends church's 'No Pants' rule on Sunday
A Fijian believer and village headman has defended the strict observance of Sunday for men in Bua island by wearing traditional 'Sulu' sarong instead of pants.
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Frank Farag: from Egypt with love
The Sydney Baptist Arabic speaking congregation had been praying for four years for a Pastor. Eventually, unannounced, an ordained Baptist minister from Egypt turned up on their doorstep. This is how it happened.
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A move of God's spirit touching the aboriginal people of central Australia
Rev John Blacket of Khesed Ministries reports of signs of an incredible renewal among indigenous Australians and clear expectations that this move of God\'s Spirit will impact non-indigenous Australians and migrants as well in this land.
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Ross Clifford elected BWA vice president
The Principal of Morling College, Revd Dr Ross Clifford, was elected Vice President of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) at annual meetings in Ede, Netherlands, on 31 July.
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After 115 years Sydney's global treasure St James a-spires to greater heights
It's Sydney's oldest church, a magnificent building linking the 21st century to convict times. And now the spire of St James' Church will be re-coppered for the first time since it was originally constructed in 1822.