Topic: United States

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has cancelled government-sponsored television advertisements calling on expatriates to return, after some American Jews complained that the message denigrated their lifestyles.The spots, aired on Israeli channels that are often viewed by emigrants, featured dramatized scenes of Jewish assimilation ...

YANGON (Reuters) - U.S. security went barefoot on Thursday as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured one of Myanmar's most revered shrines, a towering golden pagoda that is the symbol of a country seeking fresh rapprochement with the West.Clinton arrived at the ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - The national Episcopal Church has cleared a conservative South Carolina diocese bishop of accusations that he abandoned the church's principles amid disagreement over the denomination's acceptance of homosexuality.The Right Reverend Mark J. Lawrence was accused in October ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - The national Episcopal Church cleared a South Carolina diocese bishop of accusations that he abandoned the church's principles by opposing the denomination's acceptance of homosexuality.Bishop Right Reverend Mark J. Lawrence was accused in October of abandonment of ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Catholics across the United States celebrated a new translation of Mass on Sunday that church leaders said would provide a deeper understanding of the faith, but which critics complained was unnecessary and confusing.A third edition of the Roman ...

After 40 years of praying in exactly the same way, English-speaking Catholics around the world had a challenge waiting for them Sunday when they turned up to Mass.The Mass liturgy, or the text of the most sacred Roman Catholic rite, has been ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - An historic church building in the city of Savannah belongs to the national Episcopal Church, not a breakaway congregation that left the national church following the naming of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire, the Georgia Supreme Court ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Roman Catholic Church will establish a body in January to house disaffected members of the Episcopal Church, beginning with a few dozen ministers and at least two congregations seeking communion, U.S. bishops were told Tuesday.Some 35 of 67 ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Roman Catholic Church will establish a body in January to house disaffected members of the Episcopal Church, beginning with a few dozen ministers and at least two congregations seeking communion, U.S. bishops were told on Tuesday.Some 35 of ...

Bishops from throughout the United States gathered in Baltimore on Monday to hear a clarion call from their leader to breathe new vigor into the Roman Catholic Church.Opening a two-day annual meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Dolan ...