(RNS) — A Michigan-based gay rights foundation has given more than $400,000 to the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif., to help craft formal same-sex covenanting liturgies for the Episcopal Church.
OSH (ENI) -- The worst conflict in Kyrgyzstan since a revolution in April, may currently be confined to an area around the southern city of Osh, but the international ACT Alliance, an emergency aid and development agency, has warned that the fighting could spread.
