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  • Teachers rape 15 minor male students in Pak

    11/20/2023 2:42:29 PM PST · by Jyotishi · 25 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | November 21, 2023 | PTI
    Lahore -- At least 15 minor male students at a seminary were allegedly raped by two teachers in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Monday, days after the suspects were arrested. The incident took place in Chakwal district, some 275 km from Lahore, Punjab Inspector General Police (IGP) Usman Anwar told reporters here. Both the teachers, identified as Zeeshan and Anis, have been arrested and are being interrogated, he said. “The two teachers of a seminary in Chakwal district sexually assaulted at least 15 male students, aged between 10 and 12. The number may increase during the course of the...
  • Kneeling for Eucharist Banned in Some Seminaries?!

    04/25/2023 8:01:28 AM PDT · by one guy in new jersey · 2 replies
    YouTube ^ | Monday, April 24, 2023 | Timothy J. Gordon
    Kneeling for Eucharist Banned in Some Seminaries?! (YouTube video nterview of soon-to-be ex-seminarian by Timothy J. Gordon)
  • Milan Archbishop Overhauls Seminary Formation as Numbers Drop

    04/12/2023 7:53:10 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 4 replies
    The Pillar ^ | 4/11/23 | Luke Coppen
    Milan Archbishop Mario Delpini has approved an overhaul of seminary formation amid plunging numbers of candidates in Europe’s largest Catholic archdiocese. A seven-page document outlining the changes noted that in the five years from 2017 to 2022, the annual number of new entrants to priestly formation in the archdiocese fell from 24 to 6. Delpini, who signed the document March 25, announced the “reconfiguration” of seminary training at a Chrism Mass in Milan Cathedral April 6. “I would like to inform this particular assembly that I have approved, on a trial basis for a three-year period, a reconfiguration of the...
  • Ninth Circuit Sides with Seminary, Rules It Can Use ‘Religious Exemption’ to Expel Grad Students in Same-Sex Marriages

    12/15/2021 9:33:22 PM PST · by blueplum · 16 replies
    Law and Crime ^ | 14 December 2021 | ELURA NANOS
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with a California seminary on Monday, ruling that it is entitled to ignore federal anti-discrimination law and expel students in same-sex marriages. Graduate students Nathan Brittsan and Joanna Maxon... sued the seminary, claiming that Fuller Theological Seminary accepts federal funding and is therefore bound by Title IX’s anti-discrimination mandate. In turn, the school argued that it is entitled to a defense based on what is known as the “religious exemption” under 20 U.S.C. § 1681(a)(3). ...
  • ITALY: UNVAXXED SEMINARIANS FACE EXPULSION - Milan Seminary demonizes conscientious objectors as 'ideologues'

    08/28/2021 3:11:07 PM PDT · by Marchmain · 34 replies
    Church Militant ^ | August 27, 2021 | Jules Gomes
    Italy's largest seminary has become the first educational institution in the country to force mandatory vaccination and is threatening to expel seminarians if they are not vaccinated by September 12. In a letter, rector of Milan's Venegono Archiepiscopal Seminary Fr. Enrico Castagna ordered all seminarians: "You must all be vaccinated before returning from holiday." The COVID-19 vaccine is a conditio sine qua non ("condition without which not") for the 120 seminarians who are training for the priesthood in Italy's largest archdiocese. Vice rector Fr. Michele Galli justified the directive to The Daily Compass, noting the goal was "to return to...
  • Lesbian Sues Seminary That Refused to Compromise Biblical Values on Gay Marriage

    01/13/2020 7:22:14 PM PST · by Zenyatta · 23 replies
    Western Journal ^ | 1/13/2020 | C. Douglas Golden
    Whether you like it or not, there’s plenty of evidence that the God of the Bible does not sanction same-sex relationships. You may not interpret the Good Book that way. Perhaps you’ve got reasonable theological reasons for it.
  • Who is the Master’s Seminary grad preaching at Kanye West's Sunday Services?

    10/09/2019 2:58:00 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 8 replies
    Christian Post ^ | Oct 2019 | Jeannie Law
    The “Jesus Walks” performer has now invited Pastor Tyson to share sermonettes at his events...He was first seen at a Sunday Service during West’s sold-out show in Detroit last week. The slim, blonde-haired preacher hit the stage after West’s choir, led by James White, performed a few gospel numbers and reimagined mainstream songs with Christian lyrics. “I’m here to tell you that while our God is the judge over the universe, he’s also a God of mercy and he’s a God of love, and he sent his Son to die on a cross because he loves you,” Tyson told the...
  • 'Absolute theological bankruptcy': Union Theo Seminary students confess climate sins to plants

    09/19/2019 11:20:41 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 56 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | September 18, 2019 | Jon Brown
    Students at Union Theological Seminary prayed to a display of plants set up in the chapel of the school, prompting the institution to issue a statement explaining the practice as many on social media mocked them. "Today in chapel, we confessed to plants," the nation's oldest independent seminary declared Tuesday on Twitter. "Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?"
  • Episcopal seminary to set aside $1.7 million for slavery reparations fund

    09/10/2019 8:12:53 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 09/10/2019 | Michael Gryboski
    An Episcopal seminary in Virginia has announced that its setting aside $1.7 million for an endowment fund aimed at paying reparations for slavery. Virginia Theological Seminary, founded in 1823 and based in Alexandria, announced last Thursday that it was creating the fund largely in response to the institution having direct ties to slavery. Money from the fund is expected to go to projects such as helping emerging congregations linked to the seminary, aiding African-American clergy, and helping to support work by historically African-American congregations. The Rev. Joseph Thompson, director of the seminary’s Office of Multicultural Ministries, which will oversee the...
  • [Catholic Caucus] McCarrick breaks his silence: ‘I’m not as bad as they paint me’

    09/03/2019 4:22:08 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | September 03, 2019 | Dorothy Cummings McLean
    [Catholic Caucus] McCarrick breaks his silence: ‘I’m not as bad as they paint me’ VICTORIA, Kansas, September 3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― Ted McCarrick has broken his year-long silence.  Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick has granted an interview to a reporter and denied the accusations that have been made against him.  Several men have complained that McCarrick made unwelcome sexual advances to them when they were seminarians, and there have been two “credible allegations” that McCarrick also sexually assaulted two minors, a 16-year-old altar server and an 11-year-old family friend named James Grein. Grein alleges that the cardinal abused him...
  • Democrats Hire Anti-Trump Pastor to Recruit Evangelicals Ahead of 2020

    07/16/2019 8:24:29 AM PDT · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 71 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 15 July 2019 | PENNY STARR
    Democrats hoping to push President Donald Trump out of the White House are turning to the religious left in an effort to recruit evangelical voters ahead of the 2020 election. National Public Radio (NPR) noted in its report that exit polls in the 2016 presidential election indicated only one of six white evangelical voters supported Hillary Clinton. “She never asked for their votes,” Michael Wear, who directed religious outreach efforts for Barack Obama in 2012, said in the NPR report. At least two Democrat candidates, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, are hiring “faith advisors,”...
  • What are the biggest threats facing Christian seminaries Today?

    12/09/2018 6:45:37 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 54 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 12/09/2018 | Stoyan Zaimov
    Presbyterian pastor Ligon Duncan has listed out some of the biggest threats facing Christians seminaries in America, from unbelief to a lack of Biblical understanding in students. Duncan, who is the chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary in Mississippi, said in a video published on YouTube on Tuesday that one of the main threats facing theological education today is the undergraduate debt crisis. The scholar warned that the debt is “causing a lot of students to stay away from graduate theological education who would really benefit from it both personally and in their public ministry. Next, he said that there is...
  • Women Called to Ministry: An Interview with Kristen Padilla

    11/18/2018 4:49:56 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 41 replies
    Bible Gateway Blog ^ | November 13, 2018 | Jonathan Petersen
    What does it mean to be called to ministry? What does the Bible say about men and women in ministry? Who are the examples in the Bible of being called to ministry? What are the practical tools to help you pursue God’s call for your life? Bible Gateway interviewed Kristen Padilla (@kristenpadilla) about her book, Now That I’m Called: A Guide for Women Discerning a Call to Ministry (Zondervan, 2018).What does the Bible say about ministerial calling?Kristen Padilla: Scripture is not a ministerial calling textbook. However, we can extrapolate from Scripture a loose definition of a ministerial calling. Humans were...
  • Venezuelan Seminarians Struggle to Follow Christ’s Call

    07/25/2018 7:25:35 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 1 replies
    The National Catholic Register ^ | 7/18/18 | Jonathon Liedl
    Venezuelan seminarians are struggling to continue their formation for the priesthood in the midst of a deepening national crisisI’ve known Oscar for only a couple days, but I already think he has some gifts that would make him a great priest. The 19-year-old seminarian, who is just finishing his second year of formation, has been a translator of sorts for me during my visit to Buen Pastor Seminary in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. Although he doesn’t speak any English, he patiently and clearly explains things in a way that I can understand with my limited Spanish—a welcome contrast to the typical...
  • Moody Bible Institute Facing Controversy Over Faculty Cuts, Low Student Enrollment

    01/08/2018 8:23:30 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 01/07/2018 | Brandon Showalter
    Moody Bible Institute is in the midst of what some say is a "crisis" involving falling enrollment numbers, theologically liberal professors, and an administration that has betrayed the school's mission and created a culture of fear. The school, however, maintains that recent strategic moves have better positioned the institution for the future and they are presently addressing concerns. In November, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — founded in 1886 and named after renowned American evangelist Dwight L. Moody — announced that as part of a strategic initiative to preserve its long-term financial well-being, it would close its campus in Spokane,...
  • Only Six Irish Sign Up for the Priesthood - a 222-Year-Record Low

    09/10/2017 6:34:51 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 24 replies
    Irish Central ^ | 9/7/17 | James Wilson
    A mere six men will be starting the classes required to become a priest at the National Seminary at St. Patrick's College Maynooth in County Kildare this fall – the lowest number in the seminary’s more than two centuries of existence. Fifteen men, the Irish Catholic reports, are currently undergoing preparatory work that will allow them to become seminarians in the fall of 2018. Maynooth, which opened in 1795, was once the largest seminary in the world with space for 500 men to train to become priests. Last year there were only 80 men undergoing the necessary studies at the...
  • PCUSA Tackling Low Bible Test Scores Among Seminary Students

    03/11/2017 4:35:27 PM PST · by Gamecock · 26 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 3/1/2017 | Michael Gryboski
    The Presbyterian Church (USA) is looking into ways to handle an apparent drop in satisfactory rates in Bible test scores among people preparing for ministry within the Mainline denomination. Earlier this month, a task force created by the executive committee of the Committee on Theological Education released a statement on the Bible Content Examinations and a trend of lower than average evaluation rates that began in the summer. The Presbyterian Church (USA) is looking into ways to handle an apparent drop in satisfactory rates in Bible test scores among people preparing for ministry within the Mainline denomination. Earlier this month,...
  • BREAKING: Vatican re-affirms that homosexual men should not be admitted to priesthood

    12/08/2016 5:37:10 AM PST · by Petrosius · 43 replies
    Life Site News ^ | December 7, 2016 | Claire Chretien
    December 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A new document from the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy released today reiterates that "those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called 'gay culture'" are not to be admitted to seminaries or be ordained Catholic priests. In a new 90-page document titled The Gift of the Priestly Vocation, the Congregation for Clergy wrote that those who live the homosexual lifestyle, support the "gay culture," or have "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" "find themselves in a situation that gravely hinders them from relating correctly to men and women." "One must in no way overlook the...
  • Influential Episcopal Seminary No Longer Offering Degrees Amid Report of $7.9 Million Loss

    11/21/2016 12:17:38 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 11/21/2016 | Michael Gryboski
    An influential seminary affiliated with The Episcopal Church has announced that it will no longer issue degrees starting next year, and is reporting a net loss of $7.9 million in assets since last year. The Episcopal Divinity School of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced in July that they will stop granting degrees at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year. Last week, the divinity school sent out an update to supporters and members of its campus community wherein they noted that the net assets of the seminary had declined rapidly over the past couple of years. "At our meeting, we also accepted...
  • Irish Police to Probe Complaints of Homosexual Cabal at Seminary

    08/03/2016 4:08:37 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 5 replies
    An Irish man who was allegedly dismissed from the national seminary after complaining of homosexual activities will meet with police to discuss a formal complaint. The man, who has sought to preserve his anonymity, told the Irish Independent that a faculty member at St. Patrick’s seminary in Maynooth made homosexual overtures. He eventually left the seminary and married, but testified that his experience left him “severely shaken” and troubled by depression. The possibility of policy involvement and formal charges comes at a time when the Irish news media are reporting multiple complaints of homosexual misconduct at the Maynooth seminary. Ex-trainee...