South Sudan's peace deal is fatally flawed, the country's bishops said as they committed the church to helping forge new negotiations. They also recommended a series of measures to end the conflict.
During a meeting of the 2019 General Conference of the United Methodist Church held on Feb. 23-26, delegates voted 438-384 to approve the "Traditional Plan," which states that homosexuality is not compatible with Christianity.
In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has sent a death row case back to the lower courts to determine whether an inmate's history of strokes and dementia while being on death row is cause for tossing out his death sentence.
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., applauded the Trump Administration's finalizing its "Protect Life Rule," which would prohibit funds from the Title X Family Planning Program being used by facilities providing abortions.
A broad investor coalition involving religious orders, labor unions and state pension funds that control more than $3 trillion in assets is working with the nation's leading drug distributors as corporate annual meeting season nears.