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A  native of England, James Alison converted to Catholicism when he was 18....

NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha's bones to Sri Lanka for the 2600th anniversary of Buddha's Enlightenment in...

(RNS) Americans haven't heard much about upcoming congressional hearings on the radicalization of U.S. Muslims, yet more than half think it's a...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A proposed House bill will require the use of "mother" and "father" by all federal agencies and contractors when describing...

WASHINGTON (RNS) Many economists warn that the government's huge national debt is a looming threat to long-term prosperity. But is it also immoral? ...

The White House's 2012 budget proposes significant cuts to...

Twain wearied of lecture tours and struggled with guilt over his absence when two of his daughters died. In his final years, the public seemed to want Twain himself more than his books.

Not long ago, European religious cinema thrived. Now, religion typically appears in films only as a problem--and the solution to that problem is usually liberated sexuality.

At 28, Scott Harrison asked himself, "What would the opposite of my life look like?" As a businessman in New York, he had all the signs of success....

Nairobi, February 15 (ENInews)--A global rollout of pneumococcal vaccine aimed at treating pneumonia in infants has come as a welcome development for faith groups who are significant deliverers of ...

(RNS) Greek Orthodox officials on Monday (Feb. 14) filed suit against the agency charged with rebuilding Ground Zero over the disputed fate of...

San Pedro Sula, Honduras, February 15 (ENInews)--The Christian Lutheran Church of Honduras (ICLH) has urged sister churches around the world to pray for an end to the wave of violence that continue...

No one knows how the Egyptian drama will play out. But it has so far confirmed the extraordinary power that can be exerted by ordinary people when they are organized, determined and peaceful.

Via Scott McKnight, I came upon this blog post by ...

True Grit has a lot of competition in the upcoming Oscar award night, February 27. It's not...

When I first read Wendell Berry's 1985 essay "What Are People For?" 12 years ago, I was in college preparing to do exactly what Berry says that colleges prepare people to do—move to someplace...

While producing award-winning chocolate, Shawn Askinosie seeks to create a business in which everyone in­volved—from farmer to factory worker to buyer—thrives.

(RNS) Advocates for victims of clergy sexual abuse are hailing the indictment of a senior Roman Catholic official in the U.S. on charges of...

New York, February 14 (ENInews)--Trends in church membership in the United States remain stable, with churches that have grown in recent years showing continued growth and those with declining memb...

Nairobi, February 14 (ENInews)--Religious leaders in Uganda have welcomed pledges from presidential candidates for a violence-free election, due to take place 18 February....