As the war in Afghanistan approaches its eighth year, Bob Abernethy speaks with William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, about the future of the United States' involvement in that region.

That's federal public lands," says plaintiff Frank Buono. "It belongs to everyone, and so it matters to me that the lands held in common by the United States do not become the venues for sectarian religious expressions, even of my

There's definitely something spiritual about working with the earth and feeling a relationship with all of God's creation," says Cara Gonzalez, a parishioner at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Maryland, who volunteers in the church garden.

Every act of gardening embodies a way of relating to creation that invokes moral and spiritual decisions," writes Duke Divinitiy School professor Norman Wirzba.

Hindu goddesses Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswathi are worshipped and honored with fire, water, prayers, chants, and other offerings.

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A series of natural disasters in the Southeast Asia and South Pacific region has faith-based aid groups organizing to help victims. Thousands are dead or displaced after a week of earthquakes in Indonesia, tsunamis in the Samoan islands, and typhoons

Representatives of faith communities are renewing their call on world leaders to take a strong stand to protect the environment. United Nations delegates are meeting in Bangkok to continue negotiations on a new climate change treaty. Religious leaders want industrialized

Communist authorities in Vietnam are cracking down on followers of internationally known Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh. Police and an angry mob forcibly evicted nearly 400 Buddhist monks and nuns from a monastery in central Vietnam. The government claims the

There were elaborate celebrations in Beijing this week to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the People's Republic of China and 60 years of Communist rule. But in other parts of the world there were protests, as human rights and religious

A powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia Wednesday, killing more than 500 people and exasperating international relief groups that have been juggling between two other disasters that struck in the past week.

Protestant and Catholic leaders are gathering in Chicago on Thursday to mark the tenth anniversary of a landmark ecumenical agreement made between the two faith traditions.

Some call it trafficking, others bondage, but the people behind a new documentary want to call it slavery and talk about the 27 million slaves that exist in the world today.

Declining and dying congregations have found a new way to fill their pews â€" church mergers. Congregations across the country that are dwindling in numbers are contacting larger, healthier, and oftentimes younger churches for help.

An institution devoted to promoting science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values organized the first observance of Blasphemy Day on Wednesday, supposedly as part of a larger campaign for free expression.

The Lodi City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow prayers to be said in Jesus' name before council meetings.

Abstinence education passed the first hurdle this week after the Senate Finance Committee narrowly voted to restore federal funding for the sex education program.

Dean R. Hirsch stepped down as president and CEO of World Vision International on Wednesday and will continue working for the Christian relief and development organization as its global ambassador, according to an announcement made on the day of the

Many Christian colleges across the nation on Thursday have called on their students to pray and fight for the end of extreme poverty and injustice in observance of World Vision’s Day of Prayer and Action.

Americans are now more clearly in favor of the government promoting "traditional values†than against â€" a change from recent years, when the public's views were more divided.