Tongue in cheek, a Connecticut religion writer watching Hurricane Irene’s advance up the East Coast mused: “Maybe we’ve infuriated God with our gluttony and our wicked, sinful ways.” Tracy Simmons is editor of Creedible.com, a Connecticut online magazine. She covers “the consumer aspect of religion in Connecticut, reporting on the good deeds being done at…

“Please join me in praying that the Outer Banks and all the other communities in the hurricane’s path are spared from major damage,” asked Tom Crabtree, anchor at WSPA-TV News in Spartanburg, S.C., Thursday night. “My heart goes out to the beautiful Outer Banks of my native North Carolina. I pray the impact of Hurricane Irene this…

As Hurricane Irene continues to churn northward along the Atlantic coast, the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief network is at work, alerting volunteers and planning how and where to deploy Southern Baptist DR units even before the hurricane slams into the East Coast, reports Mickey Noah for the Baptist Press news service. Staff members at the…

Priests and church members in China’s immense underground Catholic Church were arrested this weekend in the community of Tianshui — as the Chinese government continues its persecution of Christians. Among those rounded up were the administrator of the underground diocese, Father John Baptist Wang Ruohan, retired Bishop Casmir Wang Milu, Father John Wang Ruowang, as well as several other priests…

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