RELIGION

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recruited members of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., train agents and police officers in speaking to people they disagreed with, a practice the agency has said it will discontinue.

Shawn Carter felt an overriding sense of freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of thought, and the freedom to express both - when his parents, both founding members of a Baptist church, kicked him out of their home after he stopped attending. It became one of the defining moments of his life, he said.

Hani Khan, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, who has been fired for refusing to remove her hijab for religious reason, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer, Hollister, is suing her former employer.

Three men convicted in a thwarted plot to bomb a Bronx synagogue were sentenced to 25 years in federal prison

The 84-year-old Pope Benedict XVI sent out his first tweet on Tuesday. It read: Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.

The Dutch lower house has approved a humane slaughter bill that will counter Islamic and Jewish religious practices.

Hani Kahn, a 20-year-old American Muslim woman, was fired when she refused to remove her hijab for religious reasons, while working as a stockroom employee at preppy clothing retailer Hollister.

Who said the Catholic Church was old fashioned?

A cartoon of Mickey and Minnie Mouse clad in Islamic dress has angered Egyptian Muslims.

Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.

It has been only three days since New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that allowed same-sex couples to marry, but that hasn't stopped the state's top Roman Catholic leaders from voicing their opposition to the new law.

Anthropologists have differed over whether to let primitive tribes live in peace, untouched by modern technological advancements, including those in the medical field, or to amalgamate them into modern life gradually. This anthropological dichotomy will perhaps never be resolved. An enormous number of readers posted comments on the IB Times story on the uncontacted tribal people deep inside the Brazilian rainforest.

The Islamic sect has struck another Nigerian city, this time bombing a popular beer garden.

The driving protest of the Saudi women going on for a month now could hardly get a dozen of hands behind the wheel, the same number that succeeded to do so during the last public driving protest 20 years ago.

Westboro Baptist Church, a group highly infamous for its radical stance against homosexuality and protest activities, announced its plan to picket the New York City's Gay Pride March on Sunday, June 26.

The battle is over, but the voices of both proponents and opponents are worth considering given that the national movement to legalize gay marriage has been rapidly gaining momentum.

The fringe Christian group Westboro Baptist issued a statement this week threatening to protest at Ryan Dunn's public funeral, and asserting that Dunn was a corrupt sinner who got what he deserved.

The exemptions for religious groups clause has bogged down the gay marriage bill debate, and as of mid-day it was uncertain whether the bill would be voted on Friday.

A private memorial service for Jackass star Ryan Dunn was held in peace and without disturbance on Wednesday at the DellaVecchia, Reilly, Smith & Boyd Funeral Home in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Topeka church says it will protest Ryan Dunn's memorial service. Church has long history of controversial protests.

Indonesian migrant labor advocates and analysts say they don't just blame Saudi Arabia for the controversial beheading of 54-year-old Ruyati binti Sapubi. They blame their native Indonesia, for not taking strong enough measures to protect its nation's migrant workers from abuse.