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Associated Press Kampala, Uganda – Uganda’s Anglican church threatened Monday to secede from the rest of the 77-million member fellowship unless U.S. clergy condemn homosexuality. The announcement was the latest salvo in a fierce debate about homosexuality has overtaken the global Anglican Communion since its U.S. wing – the Episcopal Church – consecrated its first…

Associated Press Asheville, N.C. – Evangelist Billy Graham is back at his North Carolina home recovering from surgery to update a shunt that controls excess fluid to his brain. Mission Hospitals spokeswoman Merrell Gregory says Graham is recovering well and physicians are pleased with his progress. Graham underwent surgery last Wednesday. Dr. Ralph Loomis said…

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed lawsuits Thursday (Feb. 14) challenging a judge’s ruling that marriages performed by ministers without a congregation or place of worship are invalid. The 2007 ruling, by a judge in York County, Pa., negated a marriage officiated by a minister who was…

By Rachel Pomerance and Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service Conservative rabbis expressed their “dismay” this week over a traditional Good Friday prayer that calls for the conversion of Jews that Pope Benedict XVI revised but left largely intact. In a last-minute resolution added to the agenda of the Rabbinical Assembly’s annual convention in Washington,…
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