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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The three companies that insure the majority of Protestant churches in America say they typically receive upward of 260 reports each year of young people under 18 being sexually abused by clergy, church staff, volunteers or con...

NEW YORK (AP) — A key Episcopal panel defied conservatives on Thursday, saying that Episcopal leaders should not cede authority to overseas Anglicans who want the church to halt its march toward full acceptance of gays.The Episcopal Executive Council...

*The Spiritual Interest Committee of Emmanuel Methodist Church in Southampton is extending an open invitation to everyone, including “aunts, uncles, cousins, and especially children” to attend morning worship at 11 a.m. tomorrow when a special family...

LONDON (Reuters) — Japanese Entertainment giant Sony apologised on Friday to a northern English cathedral which had accused the company of "virtual desecration" because the religious building's interior features in a violent video game.Scenes in the ...

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 ...