A Scots council fears Christianity is being ignored in non-denominational schools.
East Renfrewshire education chiefs say pupils are becoming confused because of all the different religions on offer.

Frederick Purifoy II, a representative for recording artists at a gospel music label and a man of style, has a strategy for conveying faith through fashion.
When Mr. Purifoy, 31, and his friends, who call him Freddie P., ride their motorcycles around their Detroit neighborhoods, he wears a black leather jacket with "Jesus" in large letters on the back. When he attends major sports events, his T-shirt and baseball cap communicate, "God is good." When he sings with a gospel group, Radical for Christ, he dresses in a denim jacket and jeans whose insignia represents "Intelligent Blessed Brothers."

Most evangelical leaders, who strongly supported the Persian Gulf War a decade ago, are ambivalent about the prospect of war with Iraq, according to several evangelical theologians and scholars.

There is broken glass everywhere: on the floors, covering the tables, covering papers, on beds. The Christian leaders of Gaza have gathered to offer their support and condemn the bombing of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, located within the Ahli Arab Hospital compound, on January 24.
>> Israeli helicopters fire missiles into Anglican hospital in Gaza : Canadian Press

“SERIOUSLY inflammatory” was how a listener described lectures given by the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, to conservative Evangelicals at St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, in London, on Monday.
Dr Jensen damned those Evangelicals who had accepted “the outward form, at least”, of Catholic sacramentalism, Catholic teaching on sin or Catholic spirituality, “or who think that the central ministry is that of the bishop, or who think God is not almighty, or who think that we no longer need to mention hell”.

VANCOUVER - The governing body of the New Westminster Anglican diocese who last summer voted to become the first diocese in the world to officially sanction the blessing of same-sex unions, has voted against an offer by orthodox Anglican parishes to restore proportional payments to the national Anglican Church.

Sydney's Anglican Archbishop, Peter Jensen, has defended comments he made in London on Monday disputing the authority of the church's titular head, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dr Jensen said yesterday that although he was openly opposed to the liberal views on homosexuality of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the comments he made were directed at the office, not the man.
>> Letters (scroll down to "Anglican disunity is the fault of the departees") : SMH

The human rights group, Human Rights Watch, says Vietnam has intensified repression of ethnic minorities in its Central Highlands region.

A human rights group has accused Vietnam of persecuting Protestant Christian minorities in its Central Highlands region. Human Rights Watch says more than 100 minority Protestants were arrested last year.
The New York-based group released a 19-page report saying communist authorities in Vietnam are routinely beating and detaining Montagnard Christians in the restive Central Highlands.

": I'm in England at the moment, at the invitation of about 100 rectors in England, an invitation that was given about 18 months ago before Archbishop Williams was appointed. And my aim in coming to England is to strengthen them in their evangelical faith and to encourage them to be involved in evangelistic mission." Read the full transcript here>>

The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, was the main speaker at a packed conference of close to 600 evangelicals in London last Monday that was held to discuss the evangelism of secular Britain. “The aim of the conference was to strengthen Bible teaching churches and to help think about the challenges of reaching secular Britain with the gospel,” said the Rev William Taylor, Vicar of St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London.

From 10.30am-3.30pm Dr Jensen will speak at a conference at St Ebbe's, Oxford 8.00pm he will give an evening address at St Ebbe's Church 9.30pm he will depart by car for Exeter

Sydney's Anglican Archbishop, Peter Jensen, has come under fire from the head of the Australian Church, who has accused him of arrogance and divisiveness.
The Primate, Peter Carnley, made the charge after Dr Jensen's maiden speech on a controversial preaching tour of England.

"We are reminded by Jesus that we stand upon a rock, a foundation laid by God, and that no power of evil shall prevail against the church that confesses Jesus Christ as lord" begins Bishop Ingham in his address to the Special Financial Synod in New Westminster. The Bishop and eight "dissident" parishes have been in a process of "reconciliation" following divisions caused by the Synod's decision last year to marry same-sex couples.