• LWF Establishes Task Force on Human Sexuality

  Task Force members, representing both the global South and the North, will study the crux of the theological division on homosexuality, and report on how unity can be maintained

• A/G’s Convoy of Hope Receives Surprise Visit from President Bush

  President Bush and his brother made a surprise visit to the Convoy of Hope station in Florida, to help volunteers hand out water, ice and groceries to the victims of Frances

• Catholic Parishioners Challenge Church Closing in Court

  Three busloads of parishioners from St. Albert the Great church went to court on Wednesday, to challenge the Catholic Boston Archdiocese’s decision to close the church.

• UMC Offers Seven Points of Solidarity and Comfort to Beslan Victims

  ''We feel your pain for, as St. Paul reminds us, Christians form ''one body'' and all members suffer together''

• International Ecumenical Leaders Affirm UN as Critical Peacekeeping Apparatus

  ''We believe that the UN remains the indispensable instrument of the nations of the world if they are to remove the scourge of war from the earth and to establish the conditions for peace''