http://www.disciplesworld.com/rss/news.html DisciplesWorld News Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:37:00 GMT en-us http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16243 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16243 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:03:46 PST Answers to your questions about the closing of DisciplesWorld magazine and DisciplesWorld Inc. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16242 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16242 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:17:14 PST INDIANAPOLIS (12/16/09) - We are sad to announce that DisciplesWorld, the award-winning journal of news, opinion, and mission for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), will cease publication after almost eight years. We no longer have sufficient resources to publish due to declining subscription and advertising revenue and charitable gifts. The non-profit entity that publishes the magazine - DisciplesWorld, Inc. - is also dissolving. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16241 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16241 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:53:48 PST ST LOUIS (12/16/09) - So many situations in the church call for creativity. How do you create a vital community? How do you revitalize a congregation? How do you create a community of young adults? How can you do ministry in a new way? How can you provide a seemingly impossible-to-create ministry to reach the seemingly impossible-to-reach community? http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16240 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16240 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:06:05 PST MEDFORD, Ore. (AP, 12/15/09) - Mike Phillips remembers walking to his hooch from the communal hut in the smothering darkness of the Mekong River delta. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16239 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16239 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:01:42 PST VILNIUS, Lithuania (ENI, 12/15/09) - Unwanted babies in Lithuania, who may have faced abandonment or even death, may now be left anonymously at special "windows of life" facilities set up with church support. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16238 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16238 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:58:07 PST ROME (ENI, 12/15/09) - Pope Benedict XVI has said he is "disturbed and distressed" by the findings of an official report that says the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland failed to deal with allegations of sexual abuse. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16237 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16237 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:55:13 PST NEW YORK (ENI, 12/15/09) - Observers in the United States had varying reactions to the address by U.S. President Barack Obama, when, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, he condemned religious-inspired violence but also offered a defence of the just-war tradition. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16236 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16236 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:30:34 PST RALEIGH, N.C. (AP, 12/14/09) - Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government - but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in office, and they've got the North Carolina Constitution on their side. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16235 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16235 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:27:54 PST EUGENE, Ore. (AP, 12/14/09) - You've got to figure Jesus would appreciate this whole deal: Homeless families getting some of their needs met by a sketchy-looking group of bikers - long-haired, leather-clad, smoking cigarettes and riding rumbling Harleys down Highway 99 on a sunny Saturday morning in late November. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16234 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16234 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:25:55 PST COPENHAGEN (ENI, 12/14/09) - Bells pealed as a warning on climate change after the Archbishop of Canterbury told a church service in Copenhagen, attended by people from major faiths and Christian denominations, that humanity can only show love to all by making the earth a secure home. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16233 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16233 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:18:37 PST GENEVA (ENI, 12/14/09) - Zambian-born John Nduna, an internationally experienced relief and development worker, is to head the Geneva-based ACT Alliance, which on Jan. 1 will become one of the biggest humanitarian networks in the world. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16232 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16232 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:18:15 PST NEW YORK (AP, 12/12/09) - Nancy Falchuk will never forget the phone call. She was in Boston, it was raining and the news was bad. Hadassah, the century-old Jewish charity she had been elected to lead a year earlier, had just lost a big chunk of its endowment in a Ponzi scheme - maybe as much as $90 million. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16231 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16231 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:14:24 PST MOSCOW (AP, 12/12/09) - Russia's highest court has upheld a ruling that halts the activities of a regional branch of Jehovah's Witnesses and bans dozens of its publications. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16230 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16230 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:13:07 PST BOSTON (AP, 12/12/09) - Refugee activists are developing plans to build a Mandaean cultural center somewhere in Massachusetts so the increasing number of Iraqi Mandaeans settling in the area can try to preserve their rapidly disappearing two-millennia-old religion. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16229 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16229 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:10:58 PST LINFEN, China (AP, 12/12/09) - Towering eight stories over wheat fields, the Golden Lamp Church was built to serve nearly 50,000 worshippers in the gritty heart of China's coal country. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16228 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16228 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:06:09 PST DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP, 12/12/09) - The snow might be an annoyance for many people, but one eastern Iowa man is using it to make money for charity. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16227 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16227 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:04:45 PST (AP, 12/12/09) - 'A Single Man' easily could have been one of those style-over-substance visual dazzlers, coming as it does from Tom Ford, the fashion designer who revived the house of Gucci. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16226 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16226 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:01:57 PST DES MOINES, Iowa (12/11/09) - As faithful people, the LOGOS Ministry at First Christian Church, Des Moines, Iowa (now in its ninth year) believes we are called to make a difference in children's lives. One way to promote children's development is to encourage literacy. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16225 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16225 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:08:55 PST (AP, 12/11/09) - When it comes to religion, many Americans like the mix-and-match, build-your-own approach. http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16224 http://www.disciplesworld.com/newsArticle.html?wsnID=16224 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:06:58 PST HARLAN, Ky. (AP, 12/11/09) - One of Santa's helpers lives in eastern Kentucky and goes by the name of Mountain Santa.