Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Protestants

Protestants stories: 10 news summaries

(Newser) - The hallelujahs are strained in US churches these days as donations plunge at the same time demand for aid is skyrocketing, reports the Wall Street Journal. Congregations across the nation are slashing budgets and even laying off staff, including pastors. Churches and synagogues usually weather downturns well, but not... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Catholic Church • Jews • religion • church • fundamentalism • Protestants • worshippers • donation • priest • synagogue • evangelicals • Baptists • pastor • baptism • temple • Catholic priest • women's issues • congregations • collection box • born again

Widow of Victim in Soccer Mob Attack Pleads
for Peace

Don't retaliate in his name, she asks

May 26, 09 9:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The wife of a Catholic man beaten to death by a mob of Protestant soccer fans in Northern Ireland wants no violence in her husband's name, the Telegraph reports. "He wouldn't want retaliation for it," said Evelyn McDaid, who has two black eyes and a bruised face from... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Northern Ireland • soccer • Ulster • Protestants • Ireland • Catholics • beatings

Soccer Mob Beats Catholic to Death
in N. Ireland

Protestant fans were celebrating a victory

May 25, 09 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A mob of Protestant soccer fans beat a Catholic man to death last night in Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph reports. After a victory by Scotland’s Glasgow Rangers, as many as 70 fans drove to the Catholic section of the town of Coleraine, where they “literally attacked the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Northern Ireland • Protestants • Catholics • religious violence • Glasgow Rangers • Kevin McDaid

Americans Shift to the Right on Abortion: Poll

Majority call themselves 'pro-life' for first time in survey's history

May 15, 09 2:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - For the first time in 15 years, a majority of Americans identified themselves as “pro-life” on the issue of abortion, a Gallup poll finds. In a drastic shift from just a year ago, 51% say they’re pro-life, 42% pro-choice, after a 50%-44% split in favor of pro-choice in... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • abortion • women • abortion rights • Protestants • Catholics • pro-life • Gallup poll

China Secretly Meets With Long-Banned Churches

Only state-backed religious groups legal; 100M worship in secret

Jan 26, 09 12:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Inching toward reconciliation after decades of opposition, China’s government invited leaders of the country’s banned Protestant churches to secret talks, the Times of London reports. The government is hoping to smooth relations as it celebrates its 60th year in power and aims for stability amid economic turmoil. Beijing... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • Christianity • religion • Beijing • Protestants • Christians • Protestantism • meeting

ANALYSIS

Protestants Hold Inauguration Monopoly

Priests, rabbis have been missing from ceremony for 20 years

Jan 20, 09 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's swearing-in will be the sixth straight inauguration where rabbis and Catholic priests will be absent from the dais, reports Time. For decades it was traditional to have Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish representatives at the ceremony, but Billy Graham’s invocation (and benediction) at George Bush’s 1989 inauguration... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Protestants • clergy • inauguration • Rick Warren • rabbi • Catholic priest • President Obama • Inauguration Day

Top N. Ireland Minister Will Step Down

Paisley played key role in power-sharing, peace agreements

Mar 4, 08 5:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Northern Ireland’s influential first minister, Ian Paisley, will step down in May, Reuters reports. The Protestant evangelist, 81, helped soothe religious strife in the province when he agreed to share power with Catholics last year after decades of fueling the conflict, the AP reports. "I've achieved my aims,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Northern Ireland • United Kingdom • Bertie Ahern • Ian Paisley • Protestants • Britain • Irish Catholics • Democratic Unionist Party • first minister • evangelist

Shunning Makes a Comeback
in US Churches

Pastors resurrect old practice to tame black sheep in their flocks

Jan 20, 08 10:08 AM CST
(Newser) - In an effort to reclaim their churches' role as moral authority, many Protestant ministers have reinstated the all-but-lost practice of shunning unrepentant sinners from their congregations. And while nobody's yet had to pin a scarlet "A" to their Sunday best, the consequences of the puritanical revival have weighed heavy... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Protestants • churchgoers • megachurches • Baptists • shunning • sinners • moral authority • confession • pastor

Fundamentalists Appeared After First English Bible

Having book in a common tongue allowed readers' own interpretations

Dec 12, 07 2:04 PM CST
(Newser) - The first English translation of the Bible led to the rise of fundamentalist interpretations of scripture, a Harvard professor writes in a new book. In Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents, James Simpson writes that once the general public no longer had to rely on clergy... More »

MORE ABOUT:
fundamentalism • Protestants • Islamic extremism • Bible • Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents • James Simpson

Pope Pounds Protestants

Jul 11, 07 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a remarkable nod to the 16th century, Pope Benedict XVI’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which he once led, said of Protestant denominations, 'it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them." The document restates Benedict's position... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Islam • Pope Benedict XVI • Orthodox Christianity • Protestants

10 Stories


from our news partners

Associated PressAssociated Press