FAITH & BELIEF

Last November, Tim Hart received an email from his childhood friend Jack Froese. This wouldn't be news if Froese hadn't died earlier that June.

The Obama administration has been quietly negotiating with representatives of the Conference of Catholic Bishops to tamp down their furious opposition to a federal mandate that insurance companies cover birth control, according to sources familiar with the talks.

America's Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author and public speaker, says he wants to be a values voice in Congress.

For the first time since his arrest in 2009, Iran has admitted publically that Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been convicted of religious crimes.

The Rida mosque had been threatened by Salafists before.

The Schuller family has announced plans to leave the financially struggling Crystal Cathedral, whose ministry has since gotten a new name and will soon relocate.

Both sides in Syria's bitter armed clashes have claimed the other is responsible for the killing of women and children in Homs and other cities, after footage emerged of blood soaked and mutilated bodies over the weekend.

On May 21, 2011, a 90-year-old Alameda preacher named Harold Camping tried to convince the world that the apocalypse was coming. Bracing for impact near the predicted 6:00 p.m. EST doomsday time on that gorgeous day in May, some were shocked to discover that they lived to see May 22. Camping wasn’t ready to let everyone off the hook that easily, though, and he predicted another end-of-the-world date for Oct. 21 of the same year. Needless to say, the 90-year-old was wrong, and he’s finally admit...

In a Twitter message, which later turned out to be bogus, a top Vatican cardinal announced the death of Pope Benedict XVI. The fake tweet and rumors of Pope's death were immediately denied by the Vatican spokesman.

Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech to a group of U.S. bishops about promoting the Catholic Church's teaching on sexuality and marriage.

On March 6 hundreds flocked to Tel Aviv to observe the Jewish holiday of Purim. To celebrate the salvation of Jewish people from genocide in ancient Persia, city dwellers dressed as zombies on the eve of Purim to partake in the annual Zombie Walk.

Holi, a Hindu festival, heralded the beginning of spring as people across India celebrated the festival of colors Thursday.

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Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of ancient Persia from destruction.

Britain's most senior Catholic leader Cardinal Cardinal Keith O'Brien has said that by legalizing gay marriage nations are going against the natural law which would lead to further degeneration of society into immorality.

With respect to Hitler and Nazism, the links to India and Hinduism were deeper and more profound.

For a denomination born from slavery and racism, the Southern Baptist Convention is poised for an a historic election.

India has enjoyed generally benevolent relations with the Jewish state.

Hundreds of people from across India gathered at Barsana, a small village near Mathura in India, to play Lathmar Holi.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the icon of peace and non-violence and the Father of Indian nation, was baptized by proxy by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) on March 1997, according to information from an independent researcher. The revelation by the researcher Helen Radkey of Salt Lake City has raised sharp reactions from Gandhi's grandsons and Hindu activists worldwide.

Turkish authorities confirmed the discovery of a 1,500-year-old Gospel which is believed to have foretold the coming of Prophet Mohammed to Earth, attracting the attention from Vatican, recent reports said.

Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, underscoring the depth of anti-Western fury over the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base.

Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan, police said, as anti-Western fury deepened over the burning of the Koran at a NATO base.

The former Pennsylvania senator was referring to a speech JFK made to Baptist ministers in Houston while he was running for president, in which he said he believed in the absolute separation between church and state. ABC's George Stephanopoulos pulled up a video clip in which Santorum said he read the speech, and I almost threw up.

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum doesn't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, he said Sunday, two days ahead of the Michigan and Arizona primaries.

A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a church in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 38, which led to Christian youths beating two Muslims to death in revenge.

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.