Summary: In his visit this month to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI will find an American flock wrestling with what it means be Roman Catholic.
The younger generation considers religion important, but doesn't equate faith with going to church. Many lay peopl
Summary: Islamic extremism and local governments closed more than 100 churches in Indonesia within three years, according to a persecution watchdog ...
Summary: As the California Supreme Court weighs the legal arguments over same-sex ”marriage,” pro-family coalitions are continuing in their efforts to collect signatures to pull forward the “California Marriage Protection ...
Summary: Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi priest in a driveby attack in central Baghdad on Saturday police said in the latest attack on Christians in the country
Summary: Children in the US grow up hearing about the slavery that plagued America from its founding until the Civil War. The death blow was struck by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed that "all persons held as slaves" in the rebel states "shal
Summary: Armed police on Saturday prevented Zimbabwe opposition lawyers from entering the High Court to apply for an order forcing the release of presidential election results
Summary: A US court has ruled in favor of 11 conservative congregations that broke away from the US Episcopal Church and want to keep property worth millions of dollars parties in the dispute said on Friday
Summary: The head of the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday that Beijings poor air quality will not endanger the health of athletes competing in the games in August but it may affect their performance
Summary: Democrat Hillary Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton have made 109 million 55 million pounds since leaving the White House including 51 million in speech income for Bill Clinton according to eight years of tax records released on Friday
Summary: An Argentine couple and a former army officer were convicted on Friday of charges related to the illegal adoption of a political prisoners baby during the 19761983 military dictatorship
Summary: Tibets Communist Party chief vowed a troublefree Olympic torch relay through the region even as security forces struggled to stamp out flaring violence in a nearby part of Tibetan China
Summary: Four people were killed in southern Haiti when demonstrators protesting the high cost of living clashed with security forces a local official said on Friday
Summary: US President George W Bush and Russias Vladimir Putin will try to ease strains over missile defence and NATO expansion and polish their legacies at a farewell summit on the Black Sea starting on Saturday
Summary: Texas authorities said on Friday that they were investigating a potential childabuse case at a ranch operated by followers of a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs
Summary: The Vatican tried to reassure Jews on Friday that a new prayer that some see as a call for their conversion did not indicate a change in the Churchs high regard for Jews or its contempt for antiSemitism
Summary: Prince Philip 86 who entered hospital on Thursday with a chest infection is hoping to fulfil his diary engagements next week Buckingham Palace said on Saturday
Summary: Police have made one of the countrys biggest ever heroin seizures with a street value estimated at 15 to 20 million pounds and arrested three men the Metropolitan Police said on Saturday
Summary: Details of the expenses of six leading members of parliament were revealed on Friday and showed that former prime minister Tony Blair claimed 116 pounds for his TV licence
Summary: Four decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fell to an assassin's bullet, colleagues and biographers offer many answers to the question: What if he had ...
Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown will hold talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday during which the postelection crisis in Zimbabwe is likely to be discussed a spokesman for Brown said
Summary: Zimbabwes churches are working hard to keep ordinary Zimbabweans from starvation in a country with the worlds highest inflation rate and shortest life expectancy
Summary: The United Church of Christ, the parent denomination of Barack Obama's church, announced Thursday that it will begin a conversation on racial issues beginning next month in response to sermons by Obama's pastor that were critical of the U....
Summary: While generations of believers have grown up loving the magical world of Narnia many of the deeper spiritual overtones in the story can escape the casual observer
Summary: The Salvation Armys response to emergencies in London will be greatly enhanced by the gift of a new emergency response unit purchased with a 96000 around 48000 donation from FedEx
Summary: Christians from across the denominational spectrum gathered at Westminster Abbey on Friday night to pay tribute to the life of Martin Luther King Jr who was shot dead 40 years to the day
