01: Partners for Sacred Places is a new organization that attempts to save old and overlooked congregation buildings not so much as  architectural treasures as social resources for neighborhoods and communities. Researchers assembled by the project studied six cities and found that congregations “provide, on average, four programs serving people in need from the greater community” and […]

01: The American Hindu Defamation League AHDL) is already making itself known as a protector of Hindus in America after only recently getting off the ground. The organization was recently started by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America organization. Last spring the AHDL led a protest campaign against the rock group Aerosmith for making a sacrilegious portrayal […]

01: Most of the new charismatic Christian networks and denominations active in the U.S. are home-grown. So the establishment of Christian Outreach Centres in the U.S. imported from  Australia is something of a novelty. The Brisbane -based group has 10 newly affiliated congregations in the U.S., reversing a “trend in  which several church groups from America–such as the Assemblies of […]