A book published by the denominational press of the Presbyterian Church (USA) poses provocative questions about Sept. 11 and has raised the hackles of church conservatives.

VATICAN CITY, August 2 - Pope Benedict XVI issued an impassioned call Wednesday for an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East, saying "nothing can justify the spilling of innocent blood."

TOPEKA, Kan., August 2 - Conservative Republicans who pushed anti-evolution standards back into Kansas schools last year have lost control of the state Board of Education once again.

Tradition marks this time of year as the occasion for Jewish calamity, and a biblical perspective helps us understand why. By David Klinghoffer

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Is Middle East turmoil a fulfillment of biblical prophecy? Plus, what do different faiths believe about the end of the world? By Patton Dodd

THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church filed seeking a ban on weekend classes at Makerere University.

Like most natural history museums, this one has exhibits showing dinosaurs roaming the earth. Except here, the giant reptiles share the forest with Adam and Eve. That, of course, is contradicted by science, but that’s the point of the $25

Luanda's assistant bishop, Dom Anastácio Kahango, on Tuesday here exhorted the Angolan government and officials of the Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (FCD) to fulfil all the legal formalities of the Memorandum of Understanding for Peace and Reconciliation in Cabinda Province,

THE KUMASI Ecumenical Women's Council (KEWC), a Christian group comprising Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the Ashanti regional capital, has spoken against the unprogressive and negative public utterances of a self-styled man of God, who seeks to undermine

Cain offered sacrifices to the Lord just as his brother Abel had, but Cain didn't offer the firstling of the flock as the Lord had commanded. Ananias and his wife gave most of what they gained to the Church, but

With speed and decisiveness that surprised some, the Senate on Tuesday approved a plan to transfer the land beneath the Mount Soledad war memorial to federal control in an effort to avoid a court-ordered removal of the cross that stands

The story goes that the Israeli's struck two ambulances, injuring nine people, severing one man's leg. There's only one problem; it looks as though it isn't true. ... It seems when he first told the story, there was only one

Among the things Kukah tried to dredge up from my past to justify his diatribe against me was that in 1982, I ran a story, as acting editor of New Nigerian, which accused the then governor of Niger State, Alhaji

The 2006 Kampala Archdiocesan Synod was officially opened on Sunday by the Apostolic Nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, at Pope Paul Memorial Community Centre in the city.

It is common knowledge that up to 39 Sierra Leonean pilgrims, whose travel to the holy land for the Hajj last year was organized by a Hajj agency called Islamic Development Mission in Sierra Leone (IDEMSIL), did not perform their

Zambians will hold their fourth multi-party elections on September 28.

Though a growing number of African countries have national laws against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), the laws are poorly enforced.

The hottest issue at the grass roots is illegal immigration and what our government is not doing to stop it. The question most frequently heard is, "Why doesn't the Bush administration get it?" Maybe the Bush administration doesn't want to

AS efforts at securing a ceasefire in the crisis between Israel and Lebanon failed, the umbrella Muslim body in the North, the Jama'atu Nasil Islam yesterday accused the United Nations and the United States of America of playing double standard