VATICAN CITY, Sept. 14 - Pope Benedict XVI did not intend to offend Muslim sensibilities with remarks about holy war, the Vatican said Thursday night, scrambling to defend the pontiff as anger built in the Islamic world over some of

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 - Religious conservative leaders, sensing declining alarm over same-sex marriage, are warning that the debate over homosexuality has prompted attacks on religious freedom.

BEIJING, Sept. 14 - China on Thursday denounced a decision by the U.S. Congress to award the Dalai Lama a Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor.

In the Bible, God commands the Israelites: "You shall dwell in sukkot (huts) seven days... in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of

How the popular Sesame Street character makes the world a better place--by his best friend and puppeteer. By Kevin Clash with Gary Brozek

Dr. Steven Miles explains how the war on terror led healers to become conspirators in prisoner abuse and torture. Interview by Alice Chasan

Christian Aid has said that the Government did not go far enough in its pledge yesterday to withhold £50 million from the World Bank in protest at the conditions it attaches to aid for developing countries.

The Portland Oregonian newspaper praises Atheist Nancy Powell for her courageous battle to stop local schools from allowing the Boy Scouts to recruit in classrooms during the school day. BSA continues its discriminatory policy of refusing admission to gay and

The Executive Branch of Government has been called upon to derive an empirical and holistic solution to the marauding and seemingly uncontrollable criminal activities that are mushrooming around the country in recent times.

Mr. Bashiruddin Babukhan met the Chief Minister, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and represented to him that, in all Selection Committees...

A seminal essay by Professor Thapar, A Historical Perspective on the Story of Ram, makes, the following points...

While condemning terrorism in absolute terms, the tendency of treating Muslims as the only people who could be perpetrators of all terrorist acts must be deplored...

Nicole Greenfield: In the current issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Bill Berkeley encourages us to really get to know Iran -- not through the American media, but rather through a new group of books by Persian-speaking journalists and scholars

Every fall, Halloween haunted houses come to life all across the United States. In recent years, evangelical "hell houses," which, instead of ghosts and zombies, use abortion and homosexuality to scare visitors...

Speaking to a small group of conservative journalists on Tuesday, President Bush said that he senses a "Third Awakening" of Christian devotion currently happening in the United States. National Review's Rich Lowry and Kate O'Beirne were in the Oval Office...

MAUCHE, Kenya ( Reuters ) - Kenyan followers of a U.S.-based religious sect which predicted the world would end after a September 12 outbreak of nuclear war moved into bunkers on Wednesday [September 13th] despite the failure of their prediction.

The Ghana Baptist Convention has called on government to strengthen the rule of law in the country and therefore enforce laws to regulate the conduct of the society.

From the Detroit News: From across Metro Detroit, 120 religious leaders representing multiple faiths, races and genders gathered Tuesday to urge their congregations and voters to defeat the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. Proposal Two, to be decided by voters Nov.

Controversial Lagos Clergyman, Emeka Ezeuko alias Dr Reverend King, yesterday lost his temper inside an Ebute-Metta Magistrate's Court, and slapped Miss Vivian Ezeocha, a prosecution witness and one of his seven alleged burn victims; even as the prosecution team awaits

MUFTI Sheikh Shaban Mubajje has again snubbed a request by the commission of inquiry into illegal sale of properties of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) to meet them in a "neutral" place and testify.