The importance of women in the Catholic Church cannot be "reduced" to the question of ministry, Pope Francis told members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

Women are 10 percent more likely than men to attend church, according to a Barna Research Group study in 2000. They also pray more often and lead the way in teaching children about faith.

But women’s ministry as we think of it today — while it can look different at different churches — came about in the 1980s and 1990s, when Beth Moore published her first Bible study and ...

IN SOUTHWARK diocese, part-time curacies are now an option, Mrs Eltringham says, “which can help women manage the needs of a young family alongside ministry; and we are in the process of building in a ...

In their book Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History, Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J., sum up the ministries that women deacons performed in the Eastern churches ...

There are two frequently used references by evangelicals and Pentecostals to exclude women from ministry. One relates to women speaking in church (1 Corinthians 14: 34) and the other to women’s ...

Despite their crucial role in congregational life, 83 percent of women’s ministry leaders remain unpaid. I want to tell you about a church leader I know. He heads up a ministry at his local ...

The Women's Fitness Ministry was started in January 2003 by the ministry's administrator,... Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo. ... 321-3689 or visit the church's Web site at www.fotw.org.

Of the 224 young Catholic women in formation and ministry in the U.S. who responded, 80% were dissatisfied with the ministry opportunities available to them in the global church, and 73% said the ...

Women's roles as leaders have been limited in some cases, almost nonexistent in others. ... In each region, 95 percent or more of clergywomen are in local church ministry.

St. Paul Baptist Church’s women’s ministry is reaching beyond its walls to promote the spiritual, physical and emotional well-being of women, the Rev. Sarah Priester said. The church, located ...

That subcommittee and another that studied women in ministry presented reports to Koinonia members at an Oct. 22 meeting. Then, the 81 members at that meeting unanimously voted to leave the PCA ...