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The Lambeth Conference, a 10-yearly Anglican summit hosted by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, opened its doors in the southern English cathedral city of Canterbury on Wednesday.

Integral mission is “foundational” to the church’s response to some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, said the head of the World Evangelical Alliance, Dr. Geoff Tunnicliffe.

“Far from evangelicals being an embarrassment, we should think of ourselves as integral to God’s great news for our community, and tell ourselves again with a certain humility and confidence that we have a vital role to play as active Christians and active citizens in the public square.”

NAIROBI, KENYA - Representatives of the worldwide evangelical and ecumenical movements have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, this week to pave the way for closer collaboration.

More than a hundred women leaders from across Latin America have been preparing to advocate for greater political will and more resources to secure the development of a cohesive HIV and AIDS strategy for the region at a conference in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

A senior leader of one of the United Kingdom’s largest Pentecostal churches has written to church leaders with an urgent call to prayer in the face of rampant secularism and consumerism in the nation.

Christians have voiced concern over the decision by British authorities to allow the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos.

The Anglican archbishop of Kenya has consecrated two conservative U.S. priests as suffragan bishops to take over the pastoral care of congregations that have broken away from The Episcopal Church in the United States because of its pro-homosexual stance.

A conservative prelate said that the 77-million member Anglican Communion does not have the structures needed to overcome the current split over homosexuality.

The head of the Scottish Roman Catholic Church has resigned his membership from Amnesty International in Scotland over the human rights organisation’s decision to advocate for the provision of abortion services.

Youth With A Mission (YWAM) leaders currently meeting on Je-ju island in South Korea have thrown their support behind a global effort to bring one billion people to Christ in the next 25 years.

As hopes fade of pulling any more survivors from the rubble caused by last Wednesday’s huge earthquake in Peru, Pope Benedict XVI announced Sunday that he would send his top aide to the country to show solidarity with the victims.

The state government of Andhra Pradesh in India has announced plans to impose a 110-square-kilometre ban of non-Hindu religions around a Hindu shrine.

Members of the worldwide coalition Action by Churches Together International are continuing to save lives as they bring aid relief and assistance to vast regions of central and south Asia hit by severe flooding.

The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has called for calm in East Timor amid the violence that has rumbled on since Xanana Gusmao was appointed to be the new prime minister by the country’s new president, Jose Ramos-Horta.

A call for prayer has gone out after Gospel for Asia (GFA) missionaries came under harassment recently from local anti-Christian extremists in Madhya Pradesh in India.

Youth With A Mission (YWAM) members are involved in the ongoing relief efforts in Pakistan, after more than 250,000 people were left homeless by severe flooding in June.

The outcome has emerged of a hearing in India’s Supreme Court last week on a case arguing the equal rights of Dalit Christians.

The kidnapping of 23 Korean church volunteers in Afghanistan has raised questions in South Korea over whether the country's evangelical Christian groups may be too zealous in sending missionaries overseas.

The Church of England’s second most senior cleric warned conservative Anglicans that they risk breaking ties with the spiritual leader of the worldwide communion if they boycott next year’s worldwide assembly of bishops.

The heads of several U.S. church bodies have signed a statement commending the Bush administration for its successful diplomatic efforts towards the denuclearization of North Korea.

Local government authorities in China are getting ready to demolish three well-known house churches, according to reports received by China Aid Association.

Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has received criticism from the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association after taking part in a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong.

Christians and churches around the world are being asked to pray for North Korea during a Global Week of Prayer running from 25 June to 1 July 2007.

2007 is a “happy new era for world evangelisation”. This was the closing message for the 400 delegates gathered at the Lausanne Bi-Annual International Leadership Meeting which concluded in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday.