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ALBANY, New York (AP) — Courtney Kuehn went to a Hmong wedding and — surprise! — tradition dictated a toast to her old college roommate. Paul Purdy went to synagogue with a Jewish girlfriend and accidentally stood for the Mourner’s Kaddish.Such trans...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — In 1905 France passed a landmark law declaring a clean break between church and state. Riots erupted and a papal encyclical denounced the act as a “most pernicious error”.Such extreme passions cooled long ago, but the core quest...

MUMBAI (Reuters) — Dozens of Indians who profess Jewish ancestry were headed for Israel on Monday, the first such group to migrate after rabbinical leaders accepted them as descendants of one of the lost Biblical tribes of Israel.The emigrants are me...

MARTINEZ, Georgia (AP) — At the Stevens Creek Community Church, God takes credit cards.Debit cards, too. Two "giving kiosks" sit just outside the church's chapel, next-generation collection plates that allow churchgoers to swipe their credit or debit...

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia (AP) — They are two of the biggest churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, with roots stretching back to Colonial times.One even had George Washington as a lay leader. But next week, The Falls Church and Truro Church wil...

The following is the continuation of the story of Texas evangelist TD Jakes TD Jakes’ ability to craft a message that resonates with hurting people has helped to propel his ministry beyond the walls of the African-American church into the global mark...

Hardly an hour goes by without Thomas Serafin or one of his cyber-sleuths checking what eBay has to offer.They’re not hunting for bargains and never place a bid. Their interest is bone shards, bits of wizened flesh and a contemporary twist on the sac...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Muslim clerics at a leading seminary are warning against using verses from the Quran as ringtones for their cell phones, calling the practice un-Islamic.Clerics at the Dar-ul Uloom seminary in the northern Indian town of Deoband...