(RNS) — When a community needs to rebuild crumbling roads, should houses of worship pay fees for the number of times their congregants drive on them? That’s the question behind a recent suit filed by churches in the small city…

(RNS) — A Chinese Christian should be given another chance at asylum after an immigration judge thought the man couldn’t answer “basic questions” about Christianity, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said on…

(RNS) — A handful of Anglican archbishops are boycotting a high-level meeting in Ireland Jan. 25-30 to protest the Episcopal Church’s acceptance of openly gay and lesbian bishops. The Rev. Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, which includes…

SCHUYLER COUNTY, Mo. (RNS) — The grumbling surfaced not long after the first Amish families moved to this sparsely populated farm region in the northeast corner of the state about a decade ago. Word spread that these Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking newcomers…

LONDON (RNS) — Three former Church of England bishops, disaffected by their church’s ordination of women, have been ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church under a new special section created by the Vatican. Their ordination as Catholic priests…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) — Should a street preacher be banned from approaching students at a bus stop? Dauphin County, Pa., Judge Jeannine Turgeon is weighing that question regarding Stephen Garisto, who says he has a constitutional right to evangelize to…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The New Year’s Day massacre at a Coptic church in Egypt. Christian converts facing the death penalty in Afghanistan. Swastikas painted on a Jewish synagogue in Venezuela. As the headlines deliver fresh stories of the persecution of…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — An influx of Republicans has colored the House red, but the midterm elections did little to alter the religious composition of Capitol Hill. Like the U.S. public, Protestants make up more than half (57 percent) of the…

Presentations at this year’s Symposia Series at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, will be available via live, streaming audio.  To listen, visit the seminary’s website at www.ctsfw.edu during the Jan. 18-21 event and click on the “Listen Live” button at…

Even if you can’t trek to Washington, D.C., Jan. 24 for the March for Life, you can get Lutheran news and views of the 38th annual pro-life rally through same-day, online coverage provided by LCMS World Relief and Human Care…

“There are some horrific stories of suffering,” a Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) pastor said to LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s (WR-HC) Darin Storkson in an e-mail about devastating floods through early January that have caused at least 28…

By Linda C. Hoops When Debra Court, a sixth-grade teacher at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Bonduel, Wis., poked around a walk-in safe at the school two years ago to look for old baptismal records to show her…

The Synod’s Florida-Georgia District is sponsoring a retreat for retired LCMS church workers, or “Veterans of the Cross,” March 7-9 at the Methodist Retreat Center in Leesburg, Fla. In his presentation “Can You Hear Me Now?,” Dr. Thomas Zehnder will…

Registration opens March 1 for the 34th Biennial Convention of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, June 23-26 in Peoria, Ill. The theme of the upcoming convention is “Being with Jesus — Living on the Edge,” from Acts 4:13b and 20.…

Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Mich., will undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit March 14, 2011, by a team representing the Commission on Institutions of Higher Learning of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Concordia University, Ann Arbor, has been…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa has concluded a three-year probe into alleged lavish spending at six major broadcast ministries, and asked a prominent evangelical group to study ways to spur “self-reform” among religious groups. Since 2007, Grassley,…