• Churches More Informal, Diverse than a Decade Ago

  American churches have a more informal worship style and ethnically diverse congregation than ten years ago, found a recent study on religious congregation trends.

• Christian Leader Counsels Businesses through Economic Struggles

  The head of a ministry that trains Christian leaders worldwide offered advice to business leaders who need to make tough decisions to keep their companies afloat during the difficult economic times.

• Mumbai Terrorism Overshadows Anti-Christian Violence

  For weeks the world’s attention has been focused on Mumbai, India, where coordinated terrorist attacks left nearly 200 people dead, including many foreign visitors. But some are hoping that the world will not forget to look at another terrorist attack occurring in India that has been less reported.

• Global Economy Needs Radical Change, WCC Declares

  World leaders need to make radical changes to the global economic system so that it is more just to the poor and protects the environment, said the world’s largest ecumenical body ahead the U.N. International Conference on Financing for Development that began Saturday.

• Nearly 1 in 8 Americans Struggled with Hunger in 2007

  Close to one out of every eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately in 2007, a report by the Agriculture Department, released earlier this week, revealed.