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About half of Muslims surveyed worldwide believe that the West does not respect them, according to a new Gallup report, and many say not...

I was born missing my left arm below the elbow. This technically means I have a disability, though I find it hard to identify with the label....

There is an ongoing debate about the angels in Andrei Rublev's icon of the Trinity, painted around 1410, and about which one represents the Son and which the Holy Spirit....

The "free services" my credit cards offer are made possible by excessive fees and penalties imposed on individuals like Mr. George. I imagined myself his advocate; in reality, I was complicit in his victimization.

Time to do the Advent thing, I thought last Saturday night as my husband and I prepared to study the Annunciation passage with an adult ed class. My mind went...

A few times I've come across Anthony Bourdain's food show No Reservations. Bourdain is the "bad boy" of TV gourmets--he's profane and sarcastic, and apparently an erstwhile...

Christian history in the region goes back to the earliest days of the church. As late as the eighth century, Baghdad—not Rome or Constantinople—might have been declared the center of Christianity.

Nairobi, November 29 (ENInews)--Food rights experts are cautioning Africa to be wary of what may amount to land grabbing by foreign companies who want to produce bio-fuel crops and food for their h...

The usual Thanksgiving travel stories were spiced this year with concern about enhanced security screening at airports. While...

On a Sunday when John the Baptist's call for repentance roars in our ears, we need reminders of the precedence of gift, the prevenience of grace. For John's sermonic cry to "prepare the way of the Lord" can seem all task and no gift. It calls out the Pelagian in all of us, the voluntarist who wants to build the kingdom. Careless hearing leads us to imagine that if we "make his paths straight," he will come.

Two of this season's movies, both based on true stories, remind us of the underrated pleasures of conventional filmmaking....

The author's breadth of vision has enormous implications for how we understand the nature of Christian truth and the relationship between indispensable core doctrines and later theological interpretations.

JERUSALEM (RNS) The Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, is actually a Muslim shrine, according to an official report published...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) A Holocaust-denying bishop whose readmission to the Roman Catholic Church provoked an international outcry last year now...

LONDON (RNS) The British government has warned a network of Islamic schools in the wake of a BBC investigation that claims extremist Shariah...

Smokey's nose is running. In the middle of the sermon, I see him take a napkin out of his pocket. I brace myself.

When radio stations started playing Henryk Górecki's Sym­phony no....

New York, November 24 (ENInews)--The 19-story granite building on Manhattan's upper west side, often referred to as the "God Box", has been seen as a symbol of "unbridled arrogance" on the part of ...

WASHINGTON (ABP) -- Religious leaders on both sides of the abortion debate called on Congress to include free birth control as a component in health-care reform. ...

(RNS) A resolution combating the "vilification of religions" was adopted Tuesday (Nov. 23) by a United Nations committee, but religious...