NEW DELHI---- India is expected to get its first female Roman Catholic saint on Sunday at a time when Christians have increasingly come under attack in the predominantly Hindu country.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Evangelist Billy Graham was released from the hospital Saturday, sore and bruised but not seriously injured, after he tripped and fell over one of his dogs at his North Carolina home, hospital officials said.
Two men who say they were molested as teens by the Rev. Donald McGuire testified Friday that the now-defrocked priest convinced them that they were "addicted" to masturbation and needed to be "educated" on how to stop it.
Each morning and each night, a 17-year-old boy who worked as a personal assistant for a world-renowned priest said he had to follow a certain routine. The boy brought out balms and baby oil, and, as the Rev. Donald McGuire lay naked, he massaged him, the former altar boy testified Thursday in federal court.
The Dalai Lama's spokesman says surgery on the Tibetan spiritual leader to remove a gallstone has ended successfully. Spokesman Chhime R. Chhoekyapa says the surgery was a ''simple routine procedure.'' The Dalai Lama was hospitalized in New Delhi on Thursday, days after a medical checkup cleared him to resume foreign travel.
Standing near the altar in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple is a striking sculpture: "Crucifixion," by Chicago artist John Kearney. But it is the underlying story of this artwork that is even more striking.
Of 159 clergy who voted, 121 favored leaving and 33 opposed, with five voters abstaining or casting disqualified ballots. The lay vote was closer, with 119 of 191 lay deputies voting for the split, 69 voting against and three abstaining.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Department of Transportation plans to begin removing some 300 homemade memorials to crash victims around the state.
WASHINGTON -- As parishioners pack Washington churches every Sunday, area residents complain that worshippers are clogging city streets with their parked cars.
Bill Maher has taken his crusade against religion to the big screen. Maher, who has been picking on organized religion for years on his TV shows ‘‘Politically Incorrect’’ and ‘‘Real Time,’’ zealously traveled the world for ‘‘Religulous,’’ his documentary challenging the validity and value of Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths. ‘‘Religulous,’’ directed by fellow doubter Larry Charles (‘‘Borat’’), is intended to inspire similar skepticism in others.
The salad days these surely are not. Lately, it's hard to have a sunny outlook on life, what with news of our nation's imminent financial ruin, wars and rumors of wars raging around the globe, natural disasters, pandemics, pestilence and the unflinching spotlight glaring on the increasing polarization -- politically, religiously, ideologically -- of our society.
After decades of soaring growth, the phenomenon of Protestant megachurches -- where 2,000 to 20,000 or more people attend weekend worship -- might be stalled.
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Shortly after 1 a.m., the taxi came to a stop in the Pentagon parking lot. We climbed out and walked solemnly toward the otherworldly glow in the distance.
Investors who put money into a local real estate development company that promised to deliver returns compliant with Muslim religious rules have asked a court to force the company into bankruptcy.
More than half of all adults believe they've been protected by a guardian angel, a surprising new nationwide survey has found. And it's not only religious people. One in five of those who say they have no religion also said they believe an angel has protected them from harm at some point in their lives.
DENVER -- Bill McCartney, the former college football coach who forged Promise Keepers into a formidable men's movement, has come out of retirement to lead the evangelical Christian group.
They called her the "barefoot Madonna." Nearly 50 years ago, when an 18-year-old Joan Baez lit up the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, she was an ethereal, earthy chanteuse who launched a revival of the Americana musical genre that continues until today.
In spite of the pouring rain, more than 600 people of different races and creeds gathered at the UIC Forum on Saturday to pay a final tribute to Imam Warith Deen Mohammed. The longtime leader of the American Society of Muslims and son of the late Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad died Tuesday in his Markham home, and he was buried Thursday. He was 74.
