The church news headlines from around the world.
The US United Methodists? top court has once more put the brakes on efforts to allow same-sex weddings in New York and Connecticut.
Gay alumni and their supporters are rallying around gay and lesbian students at the US?s evangelical flagship Wheaton College.
The Vatican promised to discipline a Canadian bishop who pleaded guilty to keeping a stash of child porn.
Deadly Muslim-Christian riots that left 12 dead and a Cairo church a burned-out husk have magnified worries in Egypt over Islamic ultraconservatives who have grown more assertive since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, see report this site.
In the USA a Navy plan to allow chapains to celebrate same-sex marriages in military chapels has some members of Congress promising mutiny.
Forty-seven percent of Virginians say gay couples should be allowed to legally wed, according to a new WaPo poll, a striking change in a state that overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage just five years ago.
A brouhaha erupted after Sojourners, the lefty evangelical mag, refused to allow a pro-gay ad on its website and e-mail list.
In a classic tale of Washington reinvention, Newt Gingrich is counting on his third wife ? an ardent Catholic ? for his political redemption as a family man who has found God, the NYT reports. Newt, who announced his candidacy yesterday, will also be at the F&F conference.
A Jesuit will be sworn in as the 60th chaplain of the House of Representatives on May 25, when he will become the first member of his order and second consecutive Catholic priest to serve the House.
Iranian President Ahmadinejad is feuding with the country?s top Muslim clerics, who accuse one of his top allies of being a sorcerer.
India?s Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that called for the country?s most disputed religious site to be divided between Muslims and Hindus.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging the State Department to raise religious freedom issues during a conference with China.
The Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic order in Ireland, says its future is uncertain because of costly settlements in child abuse cases.
Does this alter the narrative of an increasingly godless Europe??Attendance at services in Church of England cathedrals has increased by 37 percent since 2001.
The trial of a former Roman Catholic bishop accused of possessing graphic images of child sexual abuse began in Ottawa.
The Church of Scientology says Russian authorities have lifted a ban on some of its publications.
The Roman Catholic Church reminded bloggers about the virtue of charity.
The crucified body of a man wearing a crown of thorns was found in South Korea.
Source: http://www.churchnewsireland.org/news/world-news/international-news-briefs-2/
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