Adventist News Network:

• The online news service of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Updated weekly with news relevant to Adventists around the world.

Anglican Communion News Service:

• The news service of the Anglican Church of England, operating out of London. Checks here often point to conflicts between the wider Anglican communion and the U.S.-based Episcopal Church, known by its acronym, ECUSA.

Assemblies of God News Service:

• Some good news items here, especially from AG missions around the world.
• Anyone who's kept abreast of the kidnappings and murders of missionaries in remote places of the world knows that these martyrs are often members of the Assemblies of God.

• I hesitate to call the Associated Church Press a kind of AP for the denominational press, but it certainly leans in that direction. It sponsors conventions, educational programs, and fosters unity; just about everything except gather news.

• This page contains a directory to the member publications, about 150 in all.

• The international public relations publication of the worldwide commonwealth of Baha'is. There seems to be no indication of how often this publication is released, and it most definitely is aimed at proselytizing (as are most denominational publications, by the way).

Baptist.org:

• A shortcut to the news services of several Baptist organizations.

Catholic Net:

• The bar at the top of this page leads to magazines and newspapers around the Roman Catholic world.
  
• Oversees ethical and good journalistic practices by member newspapers and periodicals.
• Good place to locate Roman Catholic newspapers in the United States and Canada.

Catholic World News:

• An attempt by lay Roman Catholic journalists to provide news from around the world of their church. Its fine daily news briefs can be subscribed to for e-mail delivery.

Ecumenical News International (ENI):

Located in Geneva, Switzerland, this organization is sponsored by several councils of churches (World Council  of Churches; Lutheran World Federation; World Alliance of Reformed Churches; Conference of European Churches) to keep track of news of the church in society around the globe.

ECUSA:

• Home page of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Some good links here.

Episcopal News Service:

• The official news service of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
• The Episcopal Church in the U.S. has no official connection with the Anglican church but does consider itself part of the worldwide Anglican communion.

• Over 300 newspapers, magazines and other publications joined in a publication effort that basically serves as a fiscal and ethical watchdog.
• Most have conservative evangelical Christian doctrinal standards that allow them into the organization.
• Some notorious Christian publications can be identified by their abstaining from membership in this monitoring group.

• One finds here references to the Endtimes Apostasy Database and other Fundamentalist news and opinions.

• Claims to be neither a newspaper nor an e-mail daily report but instead an around-the-clock electronic news service with news direct from Israel.
• A fine site for keeping abreast on Mideast news.

Essentially a sociological study site, but it contains a comprehensive set of links to denominational Web sites.

Jewish World Review

Covers everything Jewish in the daily news around the world and more.

JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency):

• The global news service of Jewish people worldwide is how this site describes itself.
• With headquarters in New York, it has correspondents in more than 30 cities in the world filing daily news reports.

• Aimed at online readers, this well done site compiles news from around the world, much of it gathered from the wires of the Evangelical Press News Service.

• An interesting set of reports from the field gathered at this Rome-maintained site. Very current and provocative.

Orthodox News Service:

• An extensive set of links to news site related to the Orthodox Church.

• An archive of news briefs provided by the Public Affairs office of the PCUSA.

• This is more of a denominational site than a news site, but it does post press releases.
  
• The Reformed Episcopal Church is a tiny branch of Anglicanism, very conservative and notably scholarly, maintaining three seminaries (Philadelphia; Shreveport, La.; and Summerville, S.C.), and the liturgy of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer.
• The denomination generally opposes the ordination of women and stands on the conservative side of most social issues. This is its news site.
• The REC is in the process of uniting with a Florida-based denomination known as the Anglican Province of America.  Press releases for both organizations are posted at this joint site.
  

• Reformed Judaism claims to be the oldest form of Judaism in North America.
• This site is loaded with educational links and other ties to the widespread Jewish movement begun by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.

Soka Gokkai International:

Soka Gakkai International is a Japanese group, one of the world's largest Buddhist organizations for lay people.

Founded in the late 1920s by a pacifist and education reformer who died in 1944 in prison for his opposition to Japan's militarism, the organization is influential -- and controversial -- in Japanese politics.

SGI recently began construction of a college campus near San Diego, California, for Soka University in America.

This page has a link to Soka's English language newspaper, the World Tribune.

Union of American Hebrew Congregations:

• This is the home site of the Reform branch of Judaism with a list of congregations and synagogues for that branch.

Home of the liberal religious view that emphasizes the humanitarian aspects of its Jewish and Christian roots.

Unitarian-Universalists call themselves a non-creedal religion that gives human experience, conscience and reason ultimate religious authority.

The UUA originated in 1961, a consolidation of two denominations with marginal Christian roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2001, the association elected its first African-American president.

Beacon Press in Boston is the major publishing arm of the UUA, which has its headquarters on Beacon Street in Boston.

The site keeps track of Unitarian-Universalists (often called UUs) in the News.

United Methodist News Service:

• The official news voice of the United Methodist Church.
• For a better look at breaking news, visit the United Methodist Reporter site.

Arlington Catholic Herald (Virginia):

• With a 55,000 circulation, this is one of the largest denominational papers in the nation. It is one of a growing number that employ internal search engines, too.
• Nothing controversial here, and lots of official diocesan news.

• A classy weekly newspaper that operates more like a magazine. Posts its table of contents but not many of its stories.

• Among other things, this neat site provides pages for children.

• Some good local stories and features posted at this no-frills site.

• Attempts to be the local community weekly newspaper of this upper Midwest region. Upbeat and timely.

• How many denominational newspapers have a regular sports section? I don't know, but this one does. Also provides some interesting commentary and opinion.

• Nicely constructed news site that posts only selected samples of its print edition.

• The diocesan weekly that features commentary and feature stories.

Christian News Northwest:

• This evangelical newspaper claims 20,000 in circulation and goes throughout southwestern Washington and Northwestern Oregon.

• A fine looking Web site that keeps abreast of Jewish events in the daily news.

• Clever set of "Holy Links" that go around the world to key Roman Catholic sites.

• A well-designed and well-maintained Web site that offers what it calls wholesome family Internet information for Roman Catholics in Florida.
• The official newspaper of five Florida dioceses and the Archdiocese of Miami, this is the nation's largest U.S. Catholic newspaper with a weekly circulation of 142,000.

• For over 100 years, the Forward has been bringing Jewish thinking about the news to its readers. Its fine Web site also provides good reading. Includes a online Yiddish edition, and a print version in Russian.

Globe (Sioux City, Iowa):

• Not to be confused with either the Globe of Boston or the Globe of the supermarkets, this diocesan newspaper does a nice job of presenting upbeat news and some informative columnists.

• A monthly newspaper of evangelical persuasion that focusses much on upbeat personality profiles as an extension of its evangelistic intentions. Published in Portland, Maine.

• Published in Israel and on the web in both English and Hebrew.
• Can be read in a free e-mail edition.

• A weekly with interesting features on Jewishness published out of Connecticut (are there mountains in Connecticut? Parts of the Berkshires, no doubt).

Jewish Advocate:

• Jewish news from the greater Boston and New England area.

• A slick site with a slick name and with a comprehensive approach to serving Jews in the New York City region.
• This site aims to be the best Jewish news site on the Web, and it may eventually claim the title.

• A newspaper designed to link the Jewish communities on Massachusetts' North Shore, the "other Cape," as the region around Cape Ann often calls itself.

• The Jewish News is a weekly newspaper out of Phoenix, Ariz. This is its page of links to Jewish sites. Heavy on Arizona links, but lots of other valuable ties around the world.

• One of the outstanding publications that covers New York City and includes separate pages for each of the city's boroughs. Doesn't run from controversy, either.

Kansas City Jewish Chronicle:

• Local stories and timely editorials mark this community weekly.

• A prize-winning Web site. Brings commentary and news to a large segment of New York Catholics east of New York City.

• A weekly evangelical newspaper that seeks to tie Christians together living in the region.
• Now linking to several evangelical publications.
  

• This weekly newspaper is published in three editions to serve the three geographic regions of New Jersey. Keep in mind that New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the United States.

Pilot (R.C. Archdiocese of Boston):

• The oldest Catholic newspaper in America provides lots of announcements and columns.

United Methodist Reporter:
(also known as 'ReporterInteractive.org')

• Combines the United Methodist Reporter and the National Christian Reporter.
• Actually, this site is the digital expression of a much larger operation.  The parent organization is UMR Communications, a Dallas, Texas-based, religious publishing corporation that owns and operates several denominational print publications.
• I have assurance from the UMR's associate editor that this is one denominational journalistic enterprise that does go after breaking religion news and tackles controversial stories.  Worth a visit.

• This site had some Internet problems, but is now operating at full throttle.
• Less a journalist's site than a Chamber-of-Commerce-type promotional site for everything Jewish in the Windy City.

• A weekly newspaper that is part of a cooperative online called Jewish DC. Good archive of articles and editorials from the newspaper.

Weekly newspaper of the Japanese Buddhist lay organization.

Wichita Chronicle:

• A monthly nondenominational newspaper that claims it updates its Web pages weekly. Much of its hard news appears to come from the Evangelical Press service.

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