FAITH & BELIEF

There was endless speculation about what he really meant to the Beatles and to the world at large.

Iran has the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside of Israel.

Regardless of how Capriles identifies himself, his candidacy has unleashed a wave of anti-Jewish sentiments in Venezuela, a country with a long history of anti-Semitism.

President Barack Obama apologized on Thursday for the burning of copies of the Koran on a U.S. base in Afghanistan as the White House sought to quell spiraling furor among Afghans while also staving off Republican criticism at home.

Whitney Houston's mother, Cissy, wrote her a touching letter that was reportedly published in Houston's funeral program. Houston funeral service was held on Saturday at her childhood church, New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J.

Before Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was an outspoken Catholic, he was a faithful Mormon.

Iran remains unfazed by widespread protests from the international community over the execution order against the Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani for renouncing Islam.

The Lent kicked off with Ash Wednesday even as Pope Benedict XVI also began posting his daily papal message via Twitter, calling for a spiritual awakening, a Vatican Radio blog reported.

Graham’s statement that Christians are being murdered in Muslim nations is not entirely false – but he is greatly exaggerating the problem’s true dimensions.

Wednesday, Feb. 22, marks the start of Lent which occurs, 46 days before Easter.

Several people were wounded on Wednesday, witnesses said, when shots were fired as hundreds of angry Afghans gathered in a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, were burned at NATO's main base in Afghanistan.

A 2008 commencement speech by Rick Santorum reveals that the Republican presidential hopeful's religious views diverge from those of many in the U.S. electorate.

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was among 22 men inducted into cardinal status by Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City.

Pope Benedict, putting his mark on his Church's future, on Saturday inducted 22 men including India's George Alencherry into the exclusive group of cardinals who will one day elect one of their own to succeed him as leader of the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics.

Pope Benedict on Saturday elevated 22 prelates to the rank of cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church at a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Basilica. Here are their names.

Pope Benedict XVI formally inducted 22 churchmen to the elite circle of cardinals in a ceremony on Saturday. Pope presided over the ceremony held in St. Peter's Basilica. The new cardinals are from 13 countries- including three from the United States and Canada-Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York, Edwin F. O'Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and former archbishop of Baltimore and Thomas C. Collins of Toronto.

Emirati marriage counselor, author and ultra-conservative Muslim Widad Lootah has urged Muslim and Arab women to embrace love and love-making on the eve of Valentine's Day, it has been reported.

Valentine's Day is seen as a vulgar, foreign intrusion by many in India.

U.S. Catholic Church leaders said they will fight President Barack Obama's controversial birth-control insurance-coverage policy despite his compromise that religious employers would not have to offer free contraceptives for workers, shifting the responsibility to insurers.

Hazem Saleh Abu Ismail, Egypt's presidential candidate and a vocal supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, has said that there is no room for personal freedom in Islam.

The Vatican has started a probe into Romeo’s remarks and of a possible assassination plot.

If the Jewish State does indeed make a move against Iran, there exists a Biblical precedent for such a momentous event.

Malaysian police have arrested a 23-year-old Saudi journalist for allegedly posting a blasphemous tweet on the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad.

The Taung Kalat Temple is a Buddhist monastery built atop an extinct volcano plug – a volcanic landform created by magma seeping from a volcanic vent - near Mount Popa Volcano in Central Burma.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was seen in a video posted to jihadi forums today welcoming the militant Somali group al-Shabaab into the international terrorist organization.

Paisley is the very symbol of Protestant Northern Ireland and a strong supporter of the Union with Great Britain.

Bahati’s bill may simply be a form of grandstanding since homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda, as it is in most African nations.

President Obama defended some of his controversial decisions at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.

Hundreds of Nepali girls set to take part in the rite that weds them to the god Vishnu over the coming month, a symbolic time of weddings according to tradition in this Hindu nation.