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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The 36th edition of the Spoleto Festival USA is open in Charleston.The festival got under way at noon Friday with a peal of church bells, a brass fanfare, confetti floating from the air and a round of speeches.Read More...

Vatican police have arrested Pope Benedict XVI's personal butler following an investigation into the leaking of sensitive church documents.

Pastor Charles Worley is burning sexual minorities with words and electricity. During his sermon in a Baptist church the priest offered to build a huge fence, put all homosexuals behind it, and fly over the fenced area to drop them food. He also offered to bring electricity to the fence so that no one is able to get out. Gradually they will all die

Episcopal Bishop J. Jon Bruno, who has been hospitalized after being diagnosed with leukemia, was released today and returned to his residence for continued recovery. The 65-year-old bishop heads the six-county Los Angeles diocese and is credited with leading the church in a more liberal direction. He will stay at his Episcopalian residence for two weeks, Bruno said Thursday in an open letter. ...

One of the reasons that I am so committed to my community -- church, family, school, etc. -- is because I don't believe we can move forward in...

The congregation at St Helen’s Church, Ipswich, were told their married vicar, Michael Tillett, had resigned after having an affair with one of his flock, a mother of two who is separated from her husband.

Private Chris Kershaw (pictured), 19, was buried with full military honours at his funeral at the church of Holy Trinity in the village of Idle, near Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Some members of a Baptist church in North Carolina are rallying behind Pastor Charles Worley.

CHURCH bosses launched probe into a vicar’s online postings after a complaint was made about swearing

Immigrants abound in the neighbourhood around Athens' Agios Panteleimon church, but for now they are keeping out of sight.

Join us for an intimate live stream of Rumer's show on Thursday 24 May at 8.30pm BST performed at St James's Church in LondonRumer

A woman priest tipped as a future bishop has compared senior Church of England figures to wife beaters.

Earlier this week, we gave you the first of two songs the late Whitney Houston recorded for her upcoming movie, Sparkle. Now, we have the second one — gospel hymn His Eye Is On The Sparrow — and you might just want to have some tissues handy before pressing play… Take a listen to one of Whitney's [...]

The former live-in housekeeper and nanny for Sharon Stone claimed in a lawuit filed Wednesday that the actress made repeated derogatory comments about her Filipino heritage and religious beliefs.

Hundreds of Donna Summer's friends and family crowd into a Nashville, Tennessee, church Wednesday to say goodbye to the queen of disco.

Donna Summer will be laid to rest today. A private funeral is scheduled to be held at a church in Nashville, her family confirms, with about 1,000 invited guests expected to...

Ed Young, of Fellowship Church in Dallas-Fort Worth and Miami, has taken his styling tips to the mainstream in an effort to keep God current by avoiding fashion-victim status.

Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker has been taking heat for the controversial comments he made about President Obama’s campaign during a…

[Video Link] “I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there, drop some food down. Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they [...]

As we reported, "Disco Queen" Donna Summer will be laid to rest Wednesday during a private ceremony at a church in Nashville, TN. We're told the church is expecting a capacity crowd -- roughly 1,000 people -- but the service is invitation only. The…

Dozens of Catholic institutions have hauled off and sued the Obama administration, claiming religious freedom is on the line. But as I see it, both sides are in the wrong. More than 40 Catholic schools, hospitals, charities and dioceses, including the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. are going to court, ostensibly to fight a requirement that would force them to violate church teaching by includ...

Mitt Romney's religion was a major stumbling block for his 2008 presidential aspirations, and remains so for his candidacy in 2012, according to David Campbell at the University of Notre Dame. Real time voter analysis of the 2008 primaries reveals that while the social barriers of race and gender were largely overcome during the last US presidential campaign, religious affiliation (in this case...

The singer, 26, and his actress bride, 27, tied the knot at One Marylebone, a 19th century, Grade I listed former church, on May 12 as their famous friends and family looked on.

Court challenge expected against cross-party initiative

OPINION:Blind obedience appears to be the quality most treasured by the US Catholic establishment, writesMAUREEN DOWD

Cinco activistas anti-OTAN han sido detenidos por la Policía e imputados por cargos de terrorismo y posesión de explosivos al intentar boicotear la cumbre de la Alianza Atlántica que arrancó ayer en Chicago. Miles de manifestantes habían organizado paralelamente una marcha en la ciudad para protestar por el encuentro mientras un grupo de 'hackers' informáticos que dice pertenecer a Anonymous at...

SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook northeast Italy early Sunday, killing four people, tearing off chunks of church facades and sending panicked residents into the streets. Aftershocks wreaked more havoc in the region, including knocking down a clock tower and injuring a firefighter....

While Mitt Romney has said little about his Mormon faith on the campaign trail, people who know him well call it a huge influence on his conduct and worldview.

FAMILY and friends have gathered at a church north of New York City to farewell Mary Richardson Kennedy.

Suffocating debate and resisting modernity, the Catholic Church shrinks its appeal.

A mob of 600 Islamic hardliners threw plastic bags filled with urine at an Indonesian church congregation celebrating the ascension of Christ, a lawyer said on Friday

A mob of 600 Islamic hardliners threw plastic bags filled with urine at an Indonesian church congregation.

George Osborne revealed an agreement had been reached with the Church of England to provide the money in a grant.

HollywoodLife.com has just learned exclusively that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be holding a funeral for his wife on May 19 and will be burying her at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, MA. Mary Kennedy‘s funeral will be held on May 19 at St. Patrick’s Church near the home she shared with Robert in [...]

Marek Barden was diagnosed with cancer in August 2011 after complaining of a lump. The church worker, from Bristol, had a 3.3lb tumour wrapped around his ribs.

OVER THE past few days, the 12 bishops of the Church of Ireland must have thought long and hard about the fallout from the divisive votes in the General Synod last weekend, and the catastrophic effects of a debate that leaves them sorely divided. The voting has shown the Church of Ireland is deeply divided between North and South, between evangelicals and liberals, and even between conservative...

Ellen Church becomes the world?s first airline stewardess, working a Boeing Air Transport flight from Oakland, California, to Chicago.

Just outside of Adelade, Australia, there's a pedestrian-looking, bluestone church deserving of a second glance. Inside, the 1877 house of worship has been completely renovated and transformed into a thoroughly modern dwelling. It's such a unique residence that it's no surprise that it was snapped up almost immediately after it went on the market. More »...

Mobile phone network censorship systems have cut off community and political opinion websites, the Government has been warned, as it considers imposing similar technology on home broadband networks in an effort to protect children from pornography.

The Bar Council is holding a conference on Tort Law next Saturday, May 19th, in the Distillery Building, Church St, Dublin from 9.30am until 1pm.

The Church of England has embarked on a legal campaign to assert its rights to minerals under the ground across the country, to the alarm of home owners.

The General Synod of the Church of Ireland today passed a motion affirming the church’s traditional teaching on marriage and repeating its welcome to all people as members of the church by two to one majority.

CERVENA RECICE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Wires hang out of the walls, windows are smashed and the grass grows tall in the gardens of the once-elegant archbishop's residence in Cervena Recice, a 16th-century chateau left to rot after the communists took over in 1948.

I read the story in the United Arab Emirates to kids attending a religious school. There were questions after the reading; because Rocket Richard appears in the church, the question was: ‘Is he your Jesus?’”

Sarah Hartley had always practised yoga, in the same way you go to church at Christmas and Easter, so as she signed up for a yoga holiday in Italy she wasn't sure she would be able to handle it.

Church agrees to suspension of two religious days as Lisbon cuts public holidays from 14 to 10 in latest austerity move.

AGAINST THE ODDS:Still in a quandary over Tricky Dicky’s last request, Vinny heads to his local church for some guidance

Cardinal Sean Brady apologized to victims of sexual abuse but refused to resign after reports he had failed to warn parents their children were being sexually abused by a priest in 1975.

Making an order to cut down cherry trees that another man had cultivated with love; that’s a real story

I *love* living in the internet era. Someone can give a talk in OKC on April 28th, and someone in Thailand can watch that talk while theyre doing the dishes on May 7th. LOVE IT! All the more reason skeptic/atheist/pro-science/pro-church-state-separation groups should be highlighting, encouraging, and supporting their local talent: Read the comments on this post... Also check out...

BY THE CATHOLIC Church’s reckoning, it has undergone a sea change since the days when sexual predators in clerical collars sexually abused young boys with scant fear of dismissal, reprimand or even excessive concern by their supervisors. American dioceses have paid billions of dollars in compensation to victims, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued what amounts to a zero-tolerance...

Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness says the Vatican must "move out of denial mode" over the issue of child sexual abuse.

The Catholic Church has rejected reports that Cardinal Seán Brady was willing to resign two years ago over the Fr Brendan Smyth scandal but that the Vatican refused.

Pope Benedict XVI has dug deep into Vatican coffers to make a £150,000 donation to fund disaffected Anglicans fed up with Church of England's 'liberal teachings' and who want to join the Roman Catholic Church.

Municipales en Grande-Bretagne. Au-delà du duel pour la mairie de Londres (ici, le bureau de vote de St Thomas Church Hall, à Highbury) entre deux hommes politiques hauts en couleur, le sortant Boris Johnson et Ken Livingstone, les élections municipales, hier en Grande-Bretagne, constituaient un...

The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland said he would not step down despite new accusations he allowed a serial pedophile priest to keep his job, allowing the abuse to continue.

CARDINAL SEÁN Brady has criticised elements of a BBC documentary about clerical child sex abuse and complained that it “deliberately exaggerated” his role as a member of a 1975 church inquiry team charged with establishing the accuracy of abuse allegations.

Stolen artifacts represent 140 years of history on the Lytton First Nation Reserve, community members are heartbroken

Eric Church is doing some major penance. The "Sinners Like Me" crooner is apologizing to Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert for some highly critical comments he made in an...

Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton have responded to harsh words from fellow country star Eric Church about televised singing competitions in the new issue of Rolling Stone the Tennessean reports In the Rolling Stone story Church criticizes both the judges and contestants on shows like American Idol and The Voice on...

At least one person was killed when a grenade was thrown into a Nairobi church on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks in Kenya.

An official with the Nigerian Red Cross says at least 16 people were killed in an attack on church services at a university campus.

Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more today in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year.

The root of the unrest was economic, yet blacks are still the most likely to be unemployed or underemployed.On the afternoon of April 29, 1992, after hearing that the officers who beat Rodney King had been acquitted, I headed with a friend down to First A.M.E. Church in South-Central Los Angeles to attend a rally. We never made it.

Old movie buffs (and older readers) may remember a time when beer was sold in steel cans that were opened with a "church key." Entourage star Adrian Grenier is tapping into that nostalgia, we hear, with a new beer startup he's cofounding, Churchkey Can Co. The cans are the old-timey variety that you probably haven’t seen since the 60s. They’re made of fully-recyclable steel, and requi...

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L'Oréal veut racheter la marque pour bébés Cadum, propriété du fonds britannique Milestone, selon le quotidien Les Echos, qui cite des sources concordantes. Les autres candidats à la reprise du spécialiste de produits d'hygiènes pour jeunes enfants - Unilever, l'américain Church & Dwight et le...

Tens of thousands prayed outside Moscow's main cathedral on Sunday to show their support for the Russian Orthodox Church.

Church bells rang across Moscow on Sunday as Orthodox faithful held a mass prayer at the main cathedral for the "correction" of feminist punks who face seven years in jail for a stunt act there.

THIS bride has certainly gone to great lengths to look stunning for her big day. Beaming wife-to-be Li Kuo, 25, wore a striking dress with a train that was an astonishing 520metres-long. And with the gown weighing in at nearly 50kgs, it was no mean feat for her to walk down the church aisle. It took more than three months for the massive bridal train to be completed by a company in Beijing. Li ...

Die Christ Church Cathedral ist nach einer Reihe von schweren Erdbeben stark beschädigt, ein Wiederaufbau wäre immens teuer. Der japanische Architekt Shigeru Ban errichtet eine Ersatzkirche aus Pappe, Holz und Stahl, die Beben besser standhält.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Anglican church will build a temporary cathedral made of cardboard in earthquake-devastated Christchurch as it works towards a permanent replacement for its...

A silence that fell over Halifax on Sunday was broken by the peal of a church bell as the city marked the centennial of the Titanic's sinking with songs and stories tinged with sorrow.

Head of Catholic church in Australia apologizes for saying Germans suffered more any other people during WWII

Doctored photo and $1m lawsuit leave institution fighting growing allegations of corruption and criticism of its role in Russian politics

The dress diktat by the Synod Executive Committee, the second-highest decision-making authority of the Presbyterian Church, advocated a return to the tradition attire.

The second album from North Carolina chamber-pop collective Lost in the Trees opens on a note of uncertainty a far-off piano playing a chilling minor chord It's a good indication of what's to come Over the course of a dozen songs frontman Ari Picker tries to make sense of his...

theodp writes "More and more, reports the Chicago Tribune, churches are embracing the use of tablets and smartphones during services. At Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side, the Rev. Otis Moss III preaches from his iPad. 'There was a time in the church when the Gutenberg Bible was introduced,' notes early adopter Moss. 'There was a severe concern among ministers who were afr...

Tim Tebow spoke before a crowd of about 15,000 during an Easter church service held outdoors Sunday in Georgetown, Texas.

Tim Tebow drew a crowd of about 15,000 to an outdoor Easter church service Sunday, telling the gathering it's important to be outspoken about faith while admonishing athletes about not being better role models

GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) -- An Easter morning service featuring an appearance by New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow is expected to draw a huge crowd of worshippers at a central Texas church....

Church leaders are seeing red over a proposed pink festival in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn.

Gwede Mantashe has said that Malema did not defy his suspension when he addressed a church congregation, despite allegedly being barred from doing so.

A network of Catholic-sponsored newsletters and magazines, reaching tens of thousands of Cubans, get away with greater freedoms to criticize the government and call for change.

At a time of declining church and synagogue membership, Jewish leaders -- from the Orthodox to the Reform -- are embracing technology as a way to upload new energy into the hourslong Seder.

The Russian Orthodox Church has apologized for airbrushing a photo of Patriarch Kirill I to remove an expensive watch from his arm.

From the wooden Ukranian church of St. Elias, to a 24,000-piece stone Hindu temple, to the hot concrete brutalism of the Noor Centre, a survey in photos of the GTA's most intriguing holy places

I saw a photo of a notice board outside a church reading ‘God prefers kind atheists to hateful Christians’, and it got me thinking about our prejudices against each other.

US star performs in church gig as a teen in a first look at Katy's Bieber docu-style movie

US star performs in church gig as a teen in a first look at Katy's Bieber docu-style movie

A few days ago Dan Nexon went on a pretty epic rant filled with mixed emotions about the increased professionalization of Ph.D. programs in political science.  Well, not professionalization in general, but rather the tilt of current professionalization trends towards the mathematical.  To be clear, Nexon doesn't think this is an unalloyed bad, and would probably make the same recommendation I ...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrived in Cuba on Monday and told the government it had nothing to fear from the Catholic Church, asking for more freedoms to help the communist country in times of change.

A former high-ranking Roman Catholic Church official placed the church's reputation above children's safety by concealing allegations that priests sexually abused minors, said a Philadelphia prosecutor at the start of a landmark criminal trial.

While sitting in church Sunday, Bill O'Brien got distracted thinking about work. Today is a big deal for Penn State's new coach.

WASHINGTON : Former vice president Dick Cheney was recovering after undergoing heart transplant surgery on Saturday, his office said. The statement released by Cheney’s office said the 71-year-old former vice president was hospitalised in intensive care at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.  “Although the former vice president and his family do not know the ...

THE Queen of Pop, Madonna, is in a gay rights showdown with Russia's Orthodox Church and a former KGB spy over gay rights.

The Rockfeller Raza, a heady Husain and a seductive Souza - the Sotheby’s Asian Art Sale had the promise of a cocktail of intrigue and investment milestones. On 19 March 2012, Sotheby’s New York Asia Week series of sales  opened with Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art. The sale was led by of the most significant paintings by Sayed Haider Raza ever to appear on the market - Village With C...

Thousands of Coptic Christians have gathered at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo to mourn the death of Pope Shenouda III. Shenouda, who had led the Coptic Church since 1971, died on Saturday at the age of 88 from "complications in health and from old age" according to his political advisor, Hany Aziz. Sheikh Ahmed el Tayib, grand imam of al-Azhar, Egypt's highest Islamic authority, mourned Sheno...

CENTRAL, La. (AP) -- When a nationally influential evangelical leader gathered dozens of pastors at his home church to hear from a presidential candidate, he had a simple message: Rick Santorum is one of us, and your parishioners should vote for him....

In an argyle sweater, girlish gray corduroys and a pink hat embroidered with the phrase “Obey me!”, Carol looks as light as a husk. Despite her 80 years, her brown hair is just frosted with gray and her eyes are sparrow bright. She lives in Phoenix, Ariz., where she is faithful to her church (Catholic) and her party (Republican). Although she was once infamous for her sharp tongue and the rigid...

Pope Benedict XVI is "available" to meet Fidel Castro during his trip to Cuba this month but will not hold talks with dissidents who occupied a Catholic church this week, the Vatican said today.

In the heart of Salt Lake City's downtown, the Mormon church and mall owner Taubman Centers are preparing to throw the wraps off a retail anomaly next week: a megamall with eye-popping extras.

JOURNALIST Marie Colvin was borne back to her family's church in a seaside town on Long Island yesterday for a hero's funeral.

Rihanna has been urged to clean up her act -- by her former religious mentor.

A former lower leagues player from Portugal is taking legal action against his church who he claims scuppered his chances of playing for Manchester United.

No matter what you think about the Catholic Church, the “Chimp Pope” image (at left) by figurative/narrative artist Nathaniel Gold probably holds your attention and gives you pause about the latest hullabaloo. You can see a color, glossy version of the chimp pope on page 34 of Gold’s book, The Chimp Manifesto, (Jessian Press, 2009). [...]

Headline Title:  Moldova: Banning LGBTI demonstrations creates a dangerous climate 02 March 2012 The Moldovan government should reverse a move by four local councils effectively to ban outright demonstrations by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, ...

Mahatma Gandhi has been baptised in proxy by a US church, drawing sharp reaction from his grandson and others.

Charlotte Church gets a big cash payout from Rupert Murdoch's media company, but his new Sunday tabloid sells more than 3 million copies.

La cantante resultó afectada por las prácticas del diario News of the World

Weil ihr Handy illegal von Journalisten abgehört wurde, bekommt die Popsängerin Charlotte Church 600.000 Pfund von der News Corporation. Der Entschuldigung des Konzerns glaubt Church nicht. mehr...

Charlotte Church war eines der Opfer des Murdoch-Blatts "News of the World": Reporter hatten ihre Familie abgehört, sie schon im Alter von 13 Jahren bedrängt. Nun erhält sie rund 710.000 Euro Schadensersatz.

Die blutige Anschlagserie auf Christen in Nigeria nimmt kein Ende: In der Stadt Jos sind am Sonntagmorgen bei einem Selbstmordanschlag drei Menschen getötet und 38 weitere verletzt worden. Der Attentäter sei mit seinem Auto in das Kirchentor der "Church of Christ" gerast und habe dann eine Bombe gezündet. Dabei seien zwei Kirchenbesucher gestorben. In einer Racheaktion prügelten christliche Jug...

THE first time I went into an Anglican church was when I was about 14 and my cousin was getting married.

Southern Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress, who calls Mormon Church a cult, endorses Romney, picking a Mormon over "professed Christian' Obama. ...

Eine beeindruckende Anzahl von Stars aus der Musik- und Filmbranche versammelten sich in der New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, um Whitney Houston, deren plötzlicher Tod in der...

WHITNEY Houston's flower-covered casket has arrived at the church where her powerful voice first wowed a congregation.

Berlin (dpa) - Die Trauerfeier für Whitney Houston wird morgen live vom Nachrichtensender n-tv übertragen. Ab 18.00 Uhr zeigt der Kanal die Zeremonie aus der New Hope Baptist Church in Newark im US-B...

Die Trauerfeier der verstorbenen Souldiva Whitney Houston soll live im Internet übertragen werden. Die Zeremonie findet in der New Hope Baptist Church in Newark statt.

Amar'e Stoudemire comes from a small city in Florida that used to be called Lake Wailes, but founders worried that the name made residents sound melancholy, as if they were wailing all the time. So they changed it to Lake Wales, in hopes of a joyful populace. Stoudemire beams when he talks about his hometown -- the elementary school where he made the honor roll and the church where he sat in th...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners gathered at a Los Angeles-area church on Saturday to remember rhythm-and-blues singer Etta James, saying she overcame great personal and professional hurdles to sing "the times that she lived."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Two of country music's hottest rising stars will headline The Academy of Country Music's annual weekend concerts in Las Vegas this year....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Using a practice that made him eligible for large tax deductions, Mitt Romney gave the Mormon church substantial stock holdings that he obtained through his private equity firm, according to documents filed with the government and to Romney associates.

Michael Rinder leitete 20 Jahre lang den gefürchteten Geheimdienst der Church of Scientology. 2007 stieg er aus - weil er nicht mehr mit den totalitären Methoden des Sektenführers zurechtkam. Von seiner eigenen Familie wird er seitdem verachtet. In seinem ersten Interview erklärt er, weshalb eine offene Revolte bei Scientology nur noch eine Frage der Zeit ist.

A Roman Catholic priest from north-west Las Vegas is jailed for more than three years for using church funds to support his gambling habit.

Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in the gospel musical.Assembled from spare parts of "Footloose" and "Sister Act," the serviceable gospel contraption "Joyful Noise" takes place in an economically hard-hit Georgia town, where the multiracial members of the Divinity Church Choir raise voices and spirits under the direction of their beloved choirmaster, played by Kris Kristofferson. We see him ...

AGW Observer X mal verlinkt und immer noch zu blöd zu merken, daß das nicht klappt, Sudel-Ede eben. Ist ja nicht so, daß Skeptiker Berührungsängste hätten, im Gegensatz zu diesen Ministranten der AGW - Church, die mit Burka-Scheuklappen daherkommen.

The "cycle of violence" between ethnic communities in Jonglei state in South Sudan must end, the top United Nations official in the newly independent country has warned, calling on the Government, church leaders, civil society groups and the communities themselves to each play their part to achieve peace in the troubled area.

RELATIVES of the 11 people who died in the hot air balloon accident in New Zealand visited the site on Sunday and mourners attended church services as police prepared to name the victims.

A turf war prompts scuffles between groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian Christian clerics armed with brooms in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.

The Church of England and the National Trust are among organisations telling the government that it is putting community solar power schemes at risk.

“American Idol” runner-up David Archuleta has told fans he will become a full-time missionary for the Mormon Church in the next stage of his life. Archuleta, 20, made the tearful announcement at a concert in his hometown of Salt Lake City on Monday to cheers and applause from the audience.… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

PRAGUE (AFP) - Thousands gathered in Prague’s historic city centre on Wednesday as the Czech Republic began three days of national mourning to bid final farewell to Vaclav Havel, the icon of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.In the early morning chill, some 10,000 mourners mostly in black, some carrying Czech or Slovak flags, joined a solemn procession taking the former president’s coffin from a churc...

In a packed church, as thousands of law enforcement officers in their dress blues lined the streets outside, four daughters said goodbye Monday to their dad, fallen NYPD Det. Peter Figoski.

A church group has unveiled a poster to remind people of the religious aspect of Christmas -- while making a statement about modern-day extravagance.

This couple's retirement will be sorely underfunded if they continue to give 10% of their income to their church and follow through with plans for big wedding gifts to their three children

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — More than 1,000 people, including coach Bobby Petrino and members of the Arkansas football team, packed a church in Little Rock, Ark., for the funeral service of tight end Garret Uekman (EHCK’-mun). Msgr. Lawrence Frederick said in his brief homily at Christ the King Catholic Church that many question why Uekman died and answers will not come right away. Read full article &...

With church membership dwindling and more families struggling to afford the cost of college, many private religiously-affiliated colleges and universities are slashing tuition and offering incentives to attract new students -- and to stay afloat.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Members of a Lutheran church in the southeastern Finnish town of Loviisa have discovered that some music concerts leave a lasting impression.

Boxing greats have paid their respects to former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier during a private funeral at the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, in Philadelphia.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis says he's not on an anti-Scientology "crusade," and he takes no satisfaction in being told that his high-profile defection has prompted other followers to leave the church