Archbishop Peter Akinola, Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), said yesterday that refusal by Jordanian officials to allow him entry into Amman a fortnight ago was satanic and was aimed at scuttling a major Anglican conference.

The structure of the Anglican Communion is incoherent and lacks “theological seriousness,” the Archbishop of Canterbury said in a paper presented to the Fellowship of St Alban and St. Sergius at their annual meeting in New York.

Until a few weeks ago few people outside the city where he preaches would have been familiar with Peter Jensen.

Participants in GAFCON stood and applauded for 57 seconds after the conference’s final statement, with the Jerusalem Declaration, was read out by the Primate of Uganda, the Most Revd Henry Orombi, last Sunday.

The top Christian leader for Palestinians is in metro Detroit this week, offering words of hope for Palestinians and criticizing Israeli occupation. His visit comes during a national convention in Dearborn for the American Federation of Ramallah, the biggest annual gathering of Palestinians in the United States.

In a seemingly symbolic move, 100 conservative Christian leaders agreed to unite behind the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain at a meeting Tuesday in Denver, Colo., Time.com reports.

If the pews of the Church of England empty, we'll lose an army of public-spirited volunteers.

Canon Cameron said that senior clerics in the Western church were in danger of adopting a NATO-style attitude of "intellectual superiority".

Indian church leaders say they are extremely unhappy with the recent trends in the Anglican church to induct gay priests and are hinting they could join the conservative breakaway faction floated recently. Bishops in Mumbai have denounced homosexuals as people “not of sound mind.”

The Most Revd Phillip Aspinall, Archbishop of Brisbane and Primate of the Anglican Province of Australia will act as principal spokesman for the Anglican Communion bishops attending the 14th Lambeth Conference which meets in Canterbury from 20 July to August 4.

It was left to a hitherto unknown Australian, Peter Jensen, to intervene. His deft handling of the question - condemning violence in general while sidestepping the specifics - pushed the 11th Anglican archbishop of Sydney into the spotlight. Since that moment, at the conservative Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon), Jensen has insisted he is not the leader of the movement and is merely using the gifts of communication given to him by God.

THE prominent Catholic priest and lawyer Frank Brennan has condemned new police powers for World Youth Day as a "dreadful interference" with civil liberties and contrary to Catholic teaching on human rights.

A development application to build a $78 million office block and 2700 seat church in the CBD has been withdrawn by the Hillsong Church, the City of Sydney says.

From his frequent God talk on the campaign trail to his latest proposal to expand aid to faith-based programs, Democrat Barack Obama is serious and aggressive when it comes to courting faith voters.

A Malawian High Court has lifted the injunction filed against the Central African House of Bishops, blocking the appointment of a bishop.

The Bishop of Armidale, Peter Brain, was among the Anglican leaders who endorsed an historic document that addresses the crisis gripping the church over scriptural authority.

A court in Algeria handed suspended jail terms and fines to two Christians on Wednesday for trying to convert Muslims, a defence lawyer said, in the latest in a series of trials stirring accusations of religious repression.

Imagine a place where Jesus is the hype man, the pastor is the rapper, the church house is the recording studio, and the lyrical flows and rhymes are transformed into a motivational, yet catchy testimonial rap.

Rarely has an archbishop been so tested. Only days before he attends the General Synod in York, Dr Rowan Williams has received a letter from more than 1,300 clergy, including 11 serving bishops, threatening to defect from the Church of England if women are consecrated bishops.

A senior adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned Anglicans that they risk the destruction of their Church if they insist on making homosexuality a “shibboleth”.

We are a response to the current authorities' unwillingness to check the flouting of Bible teachings and can lead it forward without a split.

Months of misleading headlines and rumours floating in the blogosphere have prompted one influential megachurch to set the record straight about the major changes the church is making.

Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans to expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — support some ability to hire and fire based on faith.

More than 1300 clergy, including 11 serving bishops, have written to the leaders of the Church of England to say they will defect from the Anglican Church if women are consecrated bishops.

“Nobody present last week in Jerusalem wanted to split the Anglican Communion. No one wanted to leave the Anglican Communion. All wanted to see a robust and authentic Anglicanism which could courageously play a part in God’s great mission of reaching out to lost men and women with the gospel of redemption in Christ.”