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Critics of the country's largest Lutheran denomination and its more open stance toward gay clergy formed a new Lutheran church Friday at a meeting of a conservative activist group.The overwhelming voice vote by members of the Lutheran Coalition of Renewal created the North American Lutheran Church, a tiny denomination of churches formerly affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, headquartered in Chicago .As of early August, 199 congregations had cleared the hurdles to leave the ELCA for good, while 136 awaited the second vote needed to make it official. In all, there are 10,239 ELCA churches with about 4.5 million members, making it by far the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S.The vote followed the ELCA's decision to move gay pastors into its fold, becoming the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. to allow noncelibate gays into its ranks.The move came during Lutheran CORE's annual meeting, held this year in a Church of the Nazarene megachurch in Grove C...
ATLANTA-- A Lutheran denomination is reinstating a gay Atlanta pastor and his partner to its clergy roster.The Chicago-based Evangelical Lutheran Church in America s...
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A priest who left the Roman Catholic church and founded a nondenominational chapel to honor the victims of hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 has died.The Rev. Alpho...
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has elected to a six-year term the denomination's first openly gay bishop.In a press release, church officials say Rev. R....
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Germany's Lutheran Church has elected a woman to lead the nation's Protestants for the first time in its history.Margot Kaessmann was overwhelmingly voted into the c...
Sweden's Lutheran church said Monday it had ordained its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave priests the right to wed same-sex couples.Eva Brunne w...
Sweden's Lutheran church said Monday it had ordained its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave priests the right to wed same-sex couples.Eva Brunne w...
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