McGreevey, a Rahway resident, would not say whether his attendance at the two Episcopal churches signaled a break from the Roman Catholic Church, and he declined to answer additional questions posed by a reporter. Advertisement
"I'm just here to support a good cause tonight," he said.
Read moreForshaw joined celebrity B.C. artist Tiko Kerr in pleading with Health Canada to release two new drugs under a program that is supposed to provide access on a "compassionate" basis to desperate, dying Canadians who are seeking drugs unavailable in Canada.
Health Canada, despite the objections of Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, has refused to make the program available because the drugs are deemed too experimental and, taken together, might pose a health risk to the dying men.
Read more"I know it's materialistic, but I hate to leave this place. I was baptized here. I got married here. My son was baptized here," said Masterson, 34, who named her baby girl Jillian Grace in honor of her beloved church. "It's sad. It's awful."
Read more"Our business is to provide locations for people to meet Jesus Christ," said the Rev. Canon Kurt Dunkle, the chief of staff for Bishop John Howard. "So it was vitally important for that location to be reopened and energized for that purpose."
The Rev. David Sandifer and approximately 160 members of Calvary Church left their building and the diocese following the years of tension sparked when the Episcopal Church USA elected an openly gay bishop for New Hampshire in 2003.
Read moreWe have evidences of some cases involving situations that violate its votes of ordinance.
Read moreThe consecrations took place in Arua, a town of 60,000 in North West Uganda near the borders with Sudan and the Congo. The diocese, with 800 churches and 200 clergy in a population nearing 2 million, is also a springboard for mission in those countries and has been a haven for refugees.
Read more"The court declined to confirm Reverend Nicholas Henderson as bishop of the Lake Malawi diocese on grounds that ... (his) active association as general secretary of the Modern Church People's Union made him unsuitable for confirmation," the statement said.
The Anglican church in Malawi has close to 2 million followers and three dioceses.
Read more"Will the president intercede on behalf of this church to stop this investigation that has all the earmarks of a political retribution, since the president has so much respect for churches?" WND asked McClellan.
Responded the press secretary: "I'm not familiar with this specific enforcement action, but I think that that's something you need to address to the IRS, if it's an IRS enforcement action."
Read moreThe author of the declaration, the Rev Yngve Kalin, pastor of Hyssna in Southern Sweden, told The Church of England Newspaper the protest was "unique in the history of our Church" drawing support from "various traditions, from North to South, [and] men and women" in support.
Read moreAsked if he thought the church could be headed for schism, the 56-year-old archbishop said: "It may happen. I have got to be realistic."
Two years of deepening divisions among the world's 77 million Anglicans were sparked by the ordination of gay American bishop Gene Robinson and the blessing of same sex marriages in Canada.
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