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Over 1,800 Chinese Christians nationwide convened, Thursday, at the River of Life (Ling Leung) mega-church, 40 miles south of San Francisco.

Over 1,600 of the Chinese Methodist representatives and leaders from around the word participated in the 5th World Federation of Chinese Methodist Churches (WFCMC) Mission Conference in Sarawak, East Malaysia.

It starts before dawn, when the United Methodist pastor rises from slumber and gets ready for services. Some Sundays, he travels to two churches. On others, it's three. Every week, he spends 20 hours preparing his sermons and logs nearly 100 miles on his truck traveling to services.

"We must be committed to sharing God's love with all people - including homosexuals." The nation's largest Protestant denomination is stepping up efforts to minister to the homosexual community.

The latest withdrawal from The Episcopal Church has left the breakaway Colorado Springs parish divided.

The Anglican Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, has warned that he may lead a boycott of the Lambeth Conference 2008.

A United Methodist minister who has changed gender since being chosen to lead a congregation in Baltimore will be reappointed there, church officials announced Thursday at a regional convocation.

Southern Baptist churches are preparing for their most effective evangelism effort – Vacation Bible School.

The exclusion of two wayward bishops from joining a major Anglican conference next year has placed all the attention on the invitation list. But one of the bishops says the crisis Anglican churches are facing is not just about a few bishops.

Two bishops at the heart of the U.S. Episcopal Church's divisions over sexuality and scripture will not be invited to next year's global gathering of Anglican prelates, the archbishop of Canterbury's office said Tuesday.

Southern Baptists will unveil the general outline of a 10-year evangelistic strategy at their annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, next month.

The installation of a local minister who recently broke with the Episcopal Church and will now oversee other breakaway congregations was a unique and historic event and one that the Nigerian Anglican

The head of the World Council of Churches has “serious concerns” over the threat towards religious minorities in the Turkey posed by extremists.

Thousands of Anglicans across the country on Saturday are expected to attend the installation service of the Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns as overseer of an Anglican splinter group.

As more discontent Presbyterians consider joining a conservative network and possibly separating from the Presbyterian Church (USA), the dissident group is offering clarity on what it means to join.

The number of baptisms in Southern Baptist churches has fallen for the second consecutive year despite a push by top leaders to evangelize, according to the 2006 profile of the SBC.

Bishop Fu Tieshan, the hard-line chairman of the state-sanctioned Catholic Church who sparred with the Vatican over China's insistence on appointing its own bishops, died on Friday.