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BEIJING (AP) — An elderly bishop in China’s underground Catholic church has been detained again by police, nine months after his release from their custody, a US-based monitoring group said on Thursday.Bishop Jia Zhiguo, 73, was taken away Tuesday by...

A show of sympathy for suicide bombers among some young, American Muslims has raised new concerns about homegrown extremism, but also is highlighting calls to engage the nation’s growing Muslim population. A Pew Research Centre poll released late las...

This is the first of a two-part series Jack Kevorkian, the world’s most prolific serial killer, who takes credit for murdering 130 patients, was released from prison last week after serving only eight years of a 17-year sentence, convicted of second ...

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Some Roman Catholic state lawmakers vowed this week to lift a ban on therapeutic cloning despite a warning from a senior church leader that they would face “consequences” in their religious lives.The Catholic archbishop of Sy...

CHICAGO (Reuters) — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in an interview to be published yesterday, says he is not optimistic about the future of the Anglican Church but adds that a schism over gay issues is not inevitable.The state of the 77-mil...

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — The head of Scotland’s Roman Catholics said on Thursday that lawmakers who support Britain’s abortion legislation should not take part in Holy Communion or remain full members of the church.Cardinal Keith O’Brien called on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lately it seems all the leading presidential candidates are discussing their religious and moral beliefs — even when they’d rather not.Indeed, seven years after George W. Bush won the presidency in part with a direct appeal to conse...

TOMORROW Chapel of Ease Memorial service for all buried in church graveyard, 3 p.m. To submit names of loved ones for Roll of Remembrance Call 297-2459. June 9 Mount Zion AME Lay Organisation International dinner/auction, Hayward Hall, 6 p.m. Admis...

On May 8, Wendy Ann Thompson Morgan, 37, a daycare worker of First United Methodist Church in El Dorado, AR, was charged with fraudulent use of the church’s credit card. Earlier this spring, her mother, Carol Ann Thompson, a 61-year-old former bookke...

BALTIMORE (AP) — United Methodist clergy in Baltimore are asking for the denomination’s highest legal authority to review a bishop’s decision to reappoint a transgender pastor to lead a city congregation.Bishop John R. Schol decided in May to continu...