• IRD Report Blasts Ecumenical Policies on Human Rights

  The conservative report says the nation’s largest ecumenical body and mainline churches are anti-Semitic; NCC General Secretary fires back at ''fatally flawed report''

• SBC President: Baptism is a definite benchmark of discipleship

  ''I am confident beyond doubt that God will bless any Southern Baptist church in our convention if it will make reaching lost souls its top-most priority''

• PCUSA Urged to Rescind Divestment Decision

  Fourteen congressional representatives call the divestment policy ‘irresponsible, counterproductive and morally bankrupt’; Stated Clerk reiterates need for such a policy

• African Anglicans Reject all ‘Financial Gifts’ from ECUSA

  ''As a result of broken communion, we will not take any financial gifts from ECUSA...Please do not raise any more money on our behalf.''

• Thousands Deployed to Jeanne-Battered Florida

  ''Once again, we're facing a hurricane/tropical storm that's just wreaking havoc wherever it goes''