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As a child, I remember hearing in church about the second coming and Jesus returning....

Warsaw, November 18 (ENInews)--A European Union commissioner has rejected claims by a Polish government minister that her country's Roman Catholic schools can...

Two inseparable, inexhaustible themes have fascinated me more and more: love and the Holy Spirit.

When my congregation intones the Lord's Prayer, everyone seems to use a cellar voice. We sound like a bass section, women and children included....

Spiritual but not religious. Good Grief! Not that again. How often do we have to go over that ground?...

According to a Pew Social Trends poll...

In the Middle East, the United States has poured money and arms into two principal allies: Israel and Saudi Arabia....

The deep attention and reverence that Thomas Merton and Abdul Aziz brought to each other's books, traditions and lives undergirded their friendship, and the frank way they explored their similarities and differences enlivened it.

Warsaw, November 17 (ENInews)--A Polish bishop has invited fellow Roman Catholics at home and abroad to attend an unveiling on 21 November of the world's largest statue of Christ....

VATICAN CITY (RNS) A week and a half after losing five Anglican bishops to the Catholic Church, the leader of the worldwide Anglican...

In a "milestone" pact six years in the making, the U.S. Catholic bishops ap­proved a mutual agreement with four Reformed Protestant...

When Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee wrapped up a recent visit to Israel with 40 pastors in tow, he sought out the places where Jesus...

President Obama has signed an executive order that reforms the White House's faith-based office in a bid to improve transparency and clarify...

I'd like to see this award-winning journalist's book read by all Christians--from evangelicals who believe that their life's calling is to save souls to those Christians who, while denouncing proselytizing, feel called to offer compassionate, practical aid to those who need help. For either of the above missionary types, Griswold dispels illusions. She is fearless in following a story into the most remote village, and wise in her understanding of how religions collide and inflame and exacerbate volatile situations.

In recent conversations with my seminary classmates, we've been lamenting the state of Christian education. In many churches it is evident that the average member hasn't grown in religious or biblical knowledge since he or she heard moralistic tales of Noah, Esther or Daniel as a child. Some even resist pastoral attempts to expand their Christian knowledge, and they simply refuse to learn about other religions. As seminarians, we are struggling with how to respond to this.

What happens when an anthropologist who happens to be a Pakistani, a former diplomat and a member of the Incident Man­agement Team of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows up at 100 American mosques armed with questionnaires and a few white student research assistants? For the most part, nothing very controversial.

Rivonte Moore, 17, doesn't think of himself as a theologian....

Youth are not the future of the church—they already are the church." That claim is often made by those with a heart for youth ministry....

London, November 16 (ENInews)--Christian and Muslim leaders in Britain have joined in support of Christian communities in Iraq...

BERLIN (RNS) Gay and lesbian Lutheran ministers in the conservative German state of Bavaria may live with their partners in parish...