by John Finley | May 21, 2015 | Opinion
The U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. sponsored an ecumenical worship service on May 7 titled “The Holy Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide: A Prayer for Justice and Peace.” During a horrific...
by Daniel Burke | Nov 10, 2011 | News
(RNS) The National Council of Churches announced on Wednesday (Nov. 9) that General Secretary Michael Kinnamon is resigning due to health reasons. Kinnamon, 63, told the ecumenical group’s governing board that he must “immediately and significantly” reduce his...
by Bruce Nolan | Nov 9, 2010 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Leaders of the nation’s largest coalition of Christian churches will gather here this week (Nov. 9-11) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ecumenical movement. Members of the National Council of Churches, representing 100,000 congregations...
by Bob Allen | Jul 14, 2006 | News
A throwaway line at last month’s Baptist Center for Ethics 15th anniversary luncheon earned the attention of Fox News and rebuttal on a conservative Web site. In his June 22 keynote address at the Atlanta meeting, Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National...
by Bob Allen | Jun 23, 2006 | News
The head of America’s leading ecumenical group said Christians can learn to live together around values that Jesus taught: peace, poverty, respect for Planet Earth, people’s rights and commitment to pluralism. “We are the leaders we have been waiting...
