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Several of the nation's largest religious charities reported increases in private support as nonprofits overall saw decreases in donations last year, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported...

Bishops from the Middle East, summoned by the pope to the Vatican, ended their two-week meeting with a statement that called on Israel to end its "occupation" of Arab lands and to stop using the Bi...

I suppose I should have said something about being Lutheran this week, after all Reformation is the Lutheran 4th...

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Years ago, the brilliant but cantankerous Baptist preacher Carlyle Marney was speaking to some students at a Christian college. When a student asked, "Dr....

(RNS) The White House has denied reports that President Obama will avoid a Sikh shrine while visiting India next week because the required...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI told scientists that their research can lead to knowledge of God by revealing the natural order of the universe....

(RNS) Southern Baptist gadfly Wiley Drake will appeal a court's dismissal of his suit claiming President Obama was not born in the U.S. and is ineligible for the presidency....

Just across from the Gephardt Insti­tute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis, employees are moving into a new...

I readily admit that readings such as today's gospel make me a bit uncomfortable.  When Jesus starts talking about being "cast into hell"...

Is celebrating a holiday that honors ghouls, demons, ghosts, and everything that goes bump in the night dangerous or even evil?...

Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party recently sent out a pair of direct mail ads against Republican state senate candidate Dan Hall. Both ads refer repeatedly to him as "Preacher Dan Hall." One (pdf) shows a man in a clerical collar wearing a pin that says, "Ignore the poor." The other (pdf) features an elaborate, old-fashioned angel holding a banner: "Blessed are the Rich."

I agree with a lot of Cathleen Falsani's piece on The Social Network, in which she praises Facebook's ca...

What do Christians mean when they say that God is love?...

Bangalore, India, October 27 (ENI)--Churches in India need to show zero tolerance concerning caste-based discrimination within their ranks, a gathering of Christian leaders in New Delhi has said....

(RNS) Americans are being more generous to religious charities, but why are they skimping on their giving to churches? ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican on Tuesday (Oct. 26) called for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to be spared the death...

WASHINGTON (RNS) When Sen. David Vitter admitted in 2007 to a "very serious sin" after his phone number appeared on the list of a Washington...

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Some families may be debating whether to send kids out to trick-or-treat on Sunday night, but there's no debate in...