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OZONA, Florida — The pastor wears a sleeveless black T-shirt, blue jeans and a backward baseball cap. The collection is taken in a motorcycle helmet. And the first thing you see as you walk in the door of this makeshift church isn’t a cross or a stai...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — As Brazil’s most infamous evangelical couple waits in electronic ankle bracelets for a cash-smuggling trial in US federal court, Brazilians are taking a closer look at the husband and wife team whose case has been compared to...

TORONTO (AP) — The spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans said Monday he has agreed to an urgent request for a meeting with US church leaders as the Anglican fellowship nears a split over the Bible and sexuality.Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Will...

NEW YORK (AP) — Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has taken the highly unusual step of invalidating the election of a bishop in the tradition-minded Diocese of South Carolina, which has rejected her authority because of her liberal...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it’s the afterlife or UFOs?T...

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia — Greg Mencotti worried he would never find a spiritual home.The Sunday school teacher grew up Roman Catholic, lost his faith and became an atheist. Eventually, he returned to Christianity, this time as a born-again Christia...

CHICAGO (AP) — There are only small signs that Augustine Tolton was here.A few buildings, including a home for senior citizens, carry his name. But the Roman Catholic church where he preached his sermons to flocks of adoring parishioners on Chicago’s...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Jerusalem is the “gateway to heaven” for three major religions, where faithful Jews, Christians and Muslims feel exceptionally close to the Eternal. Yet the holy city has also been an excellent place to get your skull cracked, ...

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...

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. heir interest is bone shards, bits of wizened flesh and a contemporary twist on the sacr...