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Wearing jeans and rubber boots, clutching Bibles and weeping between hymns, residents of the storm-shattered Texas coast comforted each other Sunday at makeshift church services that provided more than a ...

A Christian magazine is being pulled from the shelves of Lifeway Christian stores because of the women on the cover.

By Imran Khan, Patna, Sep 22 : Male members of families of women sex workers were not allowed to offer namaz by the cleric in a Bihar mosque.

A mentally ill parishioner has reached a settlement in his lawsuit against a San Francisco Eastern Orthodox church and an HIV-positive priest he accused of sexual abuse.

A businessman has been murdered and his wife was in a critical condition in hospital last night following a double shooting at their 500,000 luxury home in Cornwall.

In Fouke, stillness surrounded the 15-acre ministry this morning where more than 100 federal and state law enforcement officers had raided the compound the day before as part of a child-abuse and pornography ...

Episcopal Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church , was ousted from ministry Thursday by his fellow bishops.

A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving little trace of its culture.

Dmitry Vasilyev, a professor at Astrakhan State University, said his nine-year excavation near the Caspian Sea has finally unearthed the foundations of a triangular fortress of flamed brick, along with modest yurt-shaped dwellings, and he believes these are part of what was once Itil, the Khazar capital.

Sept. 20 - They stopped it as tensions over a planned new mosque in Cologne boiled over into clashes between pro- and anti-immigrant protesters.

Here's my take: The current fight among the Southern Baptists--who are bickering, bizarrely enough, over where or whether to display a Christian publication featuring five women pastors on the ...

The one thing everyone from Jim Wallis to John McCain seem to agree on is that rampant greed is a main cause of the financial collapse.

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY - Pope Pius XII worked courageously, secretly and silently to help save Jews targeted by the Nazis' "criminal plan ... to eliminate them from the face of the ...

The five women on the cover are dressed in black and smiling -- not an uncommon strategy for selling magazines.

Megachurches can actually be more intimate than small churches? Atheism isn't on the rise despite the best-selling books saying God is a myth? Significant percentages of people believe in miraculous healing and ...

Monitor correspondent Danna Harman discusses "Roots Theater." Danna Harman Beit Shean, Israel She spent the first few days weaving in and out of the crowd, ducking here, hiding there.

SISTER SARAH'S FANTASTIC RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ARE FAIR GAME FOR INQUIRING, RATIONAL VOTERS By Lionel There have been so many videos of Sarah Palin speaking before myriad church congregations.

I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up a debate over the support conservative Christians are giving the state of Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians.

Call it a blessing or a curse that I'm blogging about Southern Baptists two days in a row--depending on your perspective-- but I thought our readership would find this new study from the Convention's own ...

Will Smith has denied claims that he is a Scientologist, it has been reported. The actor - long linked to the controversial Church of Scientology - said that while he is in favour of some aspects of the ...

WINDSOR - The Ohio Highway Patrol says a crash has killed a 7-year-old Amish boy going to school in a buggy.