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WASHINGTON (RNS) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her new ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom on Thursday...

Dresden, Germany, June 3 (ENInews)--Islam is part of a modern, changing Germany and necessary to develop a vibrant society, President Christian Wulff...

A new book on postwar Japan says Gen. Douglas MacArthur sought to fill the country's "spiritual vacuum" with religious and quasi-religious...

"And this is eternal life, to know the Father and his only Son Jesus Christ."...

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I don't know whether Rep. Anthony Weiner sent a lewd photo of himself to a college student via Twitter. The evidence is mixed: on the one...

Presbyterian minister Craig Good­win's odyssey into local food began with a post­holiday argument with his wife about who was more to blame for their rushed, packed and disappointing Christ...

John Fea brings humility, patience and objectivity to controversial questions of religion and the founding era of American history. His book is a model of scholarly restraint.

Leonard (Guy Pierce) is running, but he can't remember if is he being chased or if he is the chaser....

For C.S. Lewis, Virgil prepared the way for all subsequent Christian epics by changing the subject from the adolescent theme of heroism to the adult theme of vocation.

(RNS) Religious leaders are hoping to hit a home run in a campaign to get Major League Baseball players to ban tobacco use on fields and dugouts of the national pastime....

The atheist philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand published more than a dozen books before she died in 1982. Now some liberal Christians say...

A former leader of Germany's Protestant community, Margot Käss­mann, says she believes that a suggestion to pray with the Taliban by...

My sister Marie was reading the weekly e-mail update from her daughter's kindergarten teacher. Amid reminders about library day and an...

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The Long Goodbye is poet Meghan O'Rourke's account of her mother's colorectal cancer and the year of mourning that followed her death....

For Jesus, unity among his disciples is an instrument of the evangel itself. Presbyterians have a great evangelical opportunity to show a fractured world that it is possible for people to disagree and yet remain in fellowship.

Incendies is a disturbing layover at the crossroads of forgiveness and revenge. It's a challenging film on several levels. Not only is there a hearty helping of violence to be digested over the film's 130 minutes, but audiences must also wrestle with a complex narrative structure.

WASHINGTON (RNS) As evangelicals and other social conservatives gather here this weekend (June 3-4) to take the measure of a number of...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Prosecutors in Rome on Wednesday (June 1) released $33 million (23 million euros) in Vatican funds that had been frozen...