Short story by Lisa & Jonathan Sargeant - Our Trip to El Shadai.

On the opening day of an ecumenical conference in Assisi, the Umbrian hill town known as the home of Saint Francis, speakers discussed the need to increase interaction between faiths and cultures in order to nurture worldwide harmony. Read More

An interim Anglican cathedral, made of timber, steel and cardboard, is scheduled to be built in Christchurch, New Zealand, as planning continues on a permanent replacement for the stone building destroyed in a February 2011 earthquake, according to Anglican Taonga, the news service for the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Read More

Member churches of the Christian Ecumenical Council of Guatemala are expressing support for rural indigenous families protesting mining activity in their territories. Read More

On the southern slopes of Mount Kenya, a Christian charity is helping small farmers adapt to climate change through the use of both traditional and modern forms of weather forecasting. Read More

Anglican Mainstream, a worldwide orthodox Anglican group, has started legal proceedings against the Mayor of London following his ban on a bus poster campaign implying that gay men and lesbians can change and become heterosexual. Read More

The name Jesus Christ doesn't appear in "The Voice," a new translation of the Bible. Nor do words such as angel or apostle. Instead, angel is rendered as "messenger" and apostle as "emissary." Jesus Christ is "Jesus the Anointed One" or the "liberating king."

The head of Bosnia's Roman Catholic church has warned of the "uncertain future" facing Christians in the capital, Sarajevo, after their numbers dwindled by a third in the past decade. Read More

Reacting to some of the worst fighting between Sudan and South Sudan since the southern country achieved independence last July, two international church groups on 17 April expressed "grave concern" and called for an immediate ceasefire. Read More

Thousands of pilgrims arrived on 13 April in the German city of Trier to celebrate 500 years of the Pilgrimage of the Holy Robe, which centers on a sacred relic. Once the cause of conflict between Christians, the pilgrimage now is seen as an opportunity to promote unity. Read More