Residents are rescued in Moonachie and Little Ferry , NJ on 10/30/12. RNS photo by William Perlman/The Star-Ledger...

While peace talks are underway between the Colombian government and FARC rebels (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) in Norway, Dr Ricardo Esquivia of the Mennonite Church in Colombia affirmed that “creativity and audacity to advocate for justice in a nonviolent way” is essential at this time....

The President has obliterated the laws of about half the states. Parents cannot opt out -- they have to pay for this whether they like it or not....

Despite being a wealthy country at one time, Argentina has more recently faced recurring economic crises, persistent fiscal and current account deficits, high inflation, mounting external debt and capital flight. The major down turn in Argentina’s economy was from 1999 to 2000, and is still causing a feeling of incertitude among its citizens....

A play dramatizing the story of Christ and the Apostles has been closed down following protests from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and religious groups that it was blasphemous, theater officials said.

Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi, directed by Albania-born Laertis Vasiliou, had been staged at the Hytirio theater in the central Athens Gazi d...

Did you know the atonement was a form of divine child abuse? Spend some time in the more recherche corners of academic theology and you will come across this theory. The 1989 essay “For God So Loved the World?” by feminist liberation theologians Joanne Carlson Brown and Rebecca Parker popularized the phrase that has since [...]...

Did you know the atonement was a form of divine child abuse? Spend some time in the more recherche corners of academic theology and you will come across this theory. The 1989 essay “For God So Loved the World?” by feminist liberation theologians Joanne Carlson Brown and Rebecca Parker popularized the phrase that has since [...]...

Namita Pallod welcomes Tulsi Gabbard to her father's Houston home for a fundraiser on October 28, 2012. RNS photo courtesy Vijay Pallod...

In recent letters to the National Council of Churches in the United States and the Caribbean Conference of Churches, the World Council of Church (WCC) general secretary, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit invoked prayers for the people affected by Hurricane Sandy....