Joan Brown Campbell, global and US ecumenical leader, dies at 93
United States RNS Rev Joan Brown Campbell, the first ordained woman to lead the National Council of Churches and the US office of the World Council of Churches, died in late March at the age of 93. Campbell, who also was the director of religion at the Chautauqua Institution, was described as “an extraordinary ecumenist […]
Salman Rushdie, novelist who drew death threats, on ventilator after New York stabbing
New York City, US Reuters Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said. After hours of surgery, Rushdie […]