RELIGION

Katharine Hayhoe, a well-known Christian climate scientist, said politics, not theology, is the problem.

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.

Maine's GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe announced their support of Obama's revised contraception mandate just as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced new legislation attacking the birth control rule.

Whitney Houston's funeral will be a somber affair for friends and family who want to to say goodbye to her in person. Here's all the details, including when and where it will be held.

There is another element to this ongoing drama – Greece’s resentment of Western Europe and the feeling that Greeks don’t feel like they are a part of Europe.

An allegedly 'sacrilegious' Saudi journalist, who was detained in Malaysia recently, has been deported to his home country over the weekend, according to reports.

President Barack Obama will make no further changes to the rule requiring health insurance plans to provide women with coverage for contraception, although U.S. Catholic bishops still object, his chief of staff said Sunday.

Whitney Houston, 48, passed away Saturday afternoon at a Beverly Hills, California Hotel. The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey is mourning the singer, who first started her career in their choir.

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.

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney struggled at the CPAC 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday to connect with Republican voters who either cannot relate to him or worry that he is not conservative enough.

In one of the most shocking accounts of cult abuse, a lawsuit between the Church of Scientology and former church official Debbie Cook has finally ended today, according to a San Antonio local news website.

President Barack Obama, in an abrupt policy shift aimed at quelling an election-year firestorm, announced on Friday that religious employers would not be required to offer free birth control to workers and that the onus would instead be put on insurers.

Kashgari said he is being made a scapegoat.

The historic streets of Athens are the site of much mayhem and political theater as tens of thousands of Greek citizens have taken to the street to demand their government cancel further austerity measures.

At least two Catholic Organizations have said the revised mandate respects religious liberty without compromising women's health.

The compromise aims to tamp down ire among Catholic officials that the Affordable Care Act rule on contraception coverage would force religiously-affiliated organizations to violate church teaching.

The White House will announce a move to accommodate religious organizations on its rule for health insurance coverage of contraceptives, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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

The top after-market NASDAQ Losers Thursday were: True Religion Apparel, Exide Technologies, Nuance Communications, Amyris, Unilife Corp, Theravance, Amtech Systems, Netease.com, Deer Consumer Products and Halozyme Therapeutics.

Where did the game of cricket begin? This question came from my friend Paul, who is from the Netherlands. He was visiting Kerala, the southernmost state of India where I was born. He came here to enjoy the hot Indian summer. But there was something hotter than the sun brewing in India at that time. It was the Indian Premier League (IPL) season.