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LINCOLNVILLE, Maine (AP) – Personal tragedy set Kate Braestrup on her path to ministry. Her husband, Maine State Police Trooper Drew Griffith, was killed in 1996 when a truck slammed into his cruiser about a mile from home, leaving Braestrup to raise...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — National Guard Capt. Jeffrey Cox watched soldiers lose sight of God in the violence and daily grind of the war in Iraq. He's hoping they can find their faith again in an Episcopal monastery along the Charles River. Pro...

GENEVA (Reuters) – A drive by Christian churches to agree on a code of conduct on how they win converts has been boosted by the decision of a major evangelical movement to join in, the World Council of Churches (WCC) said this week. At a gathering in...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ¿ The gunman who shot Pope John Paul II was being transferred to an Ankara prison from Istanbul yesterday at his request, his brother and ex-lawyer said. Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, was on his ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Passengers on United Airlines "fly the friendly skies" and on American Airlines they hope to experience "something special in the air". But a slogan by a new, Vatican-approved charter service leaves little doubt about what it...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) – The Vatican's number two official celebrated Mass this week at the Knights of Columbus annual meeting in Tennessee – marking his first US appearance since taking over as secretary of state last year. Cardinal Tarcisio Bert...

After two years of fundraising, the Bermuda Bible Society presented 200 Bible Talk audio Bibles to the Bermuda Society for the Blind on Monday. The Bible Talk units had been specially purchased from the Japan Bible Society and shipped to Bermuda. On ...

BEIJING (Reuters) ¿ China detained three "underground" Catholic priests unwilling to serve a state-controlled body, a US group has reported, as Beijing and the Vatican press their claims on religious controls. The three men were caught by police in n...

SAN DIEGO (AP) A handful of parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego deliberately concealed or inappropriately handled about $500,000 in funds in sometimes "purposeful attempts" to circumvent federal bankruptcy proceedings, according to an...

Robert Peters, President of Morality in Media, recently wrote a letter to J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr., a prominent Mormon, to protest the availability of hardcore pornography in Marriott Hotels. If more of us would follow his example, there would be les...