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Terverius Black believes in hip-hop gospel so much he sold his first home to get the money needed to start his Christian-themed entertainment company.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech.
Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said he will continue to hold weekly prayer meetings at his home, three years after he was ousted from the church he founded amid a scandal involving a male prostitute and drug use.
Sister Catherine Bitzer slowly opened a file box and carefully removed a brittle page, scarred by years of neglectful storage, mold and insects. At 415 years old, the marriage record written by a Roman Catholic priest is still readable and is one of the oldest known European records from the United States.
When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start.
New York lawyer Elizabeth Kim, 33, was voted off Foa Foa. Russell was annoyed by her constant talking — and by the threat she posed to his strategy. Liz knew she was at risk if only because she was one of the tribe's physically weaker members, but Jaison's poor performance during the immunity challenge almost saved her. Almost.
An Ohio village's Christmas parade has been canceled amid concerns over possible lawsuits, expected protests and logistical problems.
The Church of Scientology is responding to claims that the religion is anti-gay, an allegation made by “Crash” director Paul Haggis, who is publicly denouncing the church’s practices.
It's hard to tell in the quiet of a color-splashed autumn morning, but Redeemer Fellowship Church is trying to set roots in a rough neighborhood. For churches, anyway.
A polygamous sect is asking the Utah Supreme Court to overturn a state court decision that stripped the religious purposes from its communal land trust.
Rudimentary telescopes, celestial globes and original manuscripts by Galileo are going on view at the Vatican Museums as part of an exhibit marking the 400th anniversary of the astronomer's first celestial observations.
On the first Sunday morning of October, pastor Steve Scott looked far beyond the surroundings of his western Wisconsin congregation to find worthy subjects for their prayers: recent natural disaster victims in Indonesia and the Philippines.
A tiny Louisville church's newest minister is a gifted music leader and popular among its three dozen members.
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have revised a recent statement on salvation, Jews and evangelizing in response to Jewish concerns over the document.
Organized religion was already in trouble before the fall of 2008. Denominations were stagnating or shrinking, and congregations across faith groups were fretting about their finances.
The cleaned-up remake is shinier, prettier and watches its language. No one even dances on top of a car...
A tiny Louisville church's newest minister is a gifted music leader and popular among its three dozen members.
The growing number of Americans who don't claim religious affiliation are more likely to be male, younger, living in the West and politically independent, a new report finds.
Cuba will allow inmates to attend Roman Catholic Mass and Protestant services inside prisons, a top religious leader said Tuesday, in a significant easing of the communist government's policy toward organized religion.
Rabbi Danny Marmorstein uses the Yiddish word "bashert" to describe how a Torah created in 19th-century Eastern Europe survived the Nazi regime in near-perfect condition and landed a world away at his tiny synagogue.
A man isn't entitled to use Arizona's religious-freedom law to overturn his conviction for possessing marijuana while driving, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Some Texas school districts are scrambling to interpret a state law that requires public schools to incorporate Bible literacy into the curriculum.
Marcia Kear's three daughters were married at St. James Anglican Church. Her mother's funeral was there. She said she found the Holy Spirit there.
Two smaller, more conservative U.S.-based Lutheran denominations are expressing disappointment in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's decision to open a wider door to gay clergy.
It took years for a family of prominent American Shiite scholars to build a specialized seminary that would train Americans and Europeans to lead mosques in the West.
Kirk Cameron's Crusade To Crush Evolution As Silly As It SoundsFormer TV teen idol Kirk Cameron has been on a crusade for years to discredit the theory of evolution.
Vatican describes Twilight as a deviant moral vacuumTHE latest instalment of the teen vampire saga Twilight is a "deviant moral vacuum", the Vatican said yesterday. New Moon, which opened this week, is a "mixture of excesses aimed at young people and gives a heavy esoteric element", the Vatican warned.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Intel's work on SabbathAROUND 2000 ultra-Orthodox Jews protested at an Israeli plant of giant US chipmaker Intel for the second Saturday in a row, voicing outrage at the factory's decision to operate on the Sabbath.
Sign �I am a Christian� Declaration of Faith � Franklin Graham & Christianity.comAt a time when God's truth is being attacked on all sides, now more than ever, Christians need to take a stand and declare their faith in Jesus Christ.
Unprecedented coalition of religious leaders call Americans to stand for sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedomAn unprecedented coalition of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars has crafted a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty.
USCCB Approves Strongly-Worded Document Affirming Value of Natural MarriageThe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a new document that strongly affirms the Church's traditional teaching on marriage by condemning contraception, divorce, same-sex marriage, and cohabitation as dangers directed "at the very meaning and purpose of marriage, …
My Background I am a computer security professional with a special interest in cryptography. I am also a deeply religious guy, with a strong affinity towards my beliefs. This article is to put out my views about privacy from a religious perspective.
BlasphemyWhile I can respect people having belief they must not be allowed to dictate what others can say or do.
More Evidence the Extreme Religious Right in the U.S. Is No Different from Any Other Radical Terrorist SectThese disgusting hypocrites have been a cancer in our body politic ever since we became a country.
How Will Religion Evolve? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.comDoes religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a tradi …
Archbishop tells Pope: there will be no turning back on women priestsThe Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday made his most outspoken challenge to the Roman Catholic Church since the Pope invited disaffected Anglicans to switch to Rome.
If you haven't been paying attention to funny cat witticism pictures lately(something most people could give a fig about) you may have missed the good news! www.lolcatbible.com Offers a very complex and funny parody of the bible where in fact the great cat god, "Ceiling Cat" crea …
Catholic bishops claim moral authority amidst 'confusion'BALTIMORE — Responding to scientific advances and widespread "confusion" among their flocks, U.S. Catholic bishops today issued detailed guidelines on marriage, reproductive technologies and health care for severely brain-damaged patients.
Dana Perino Nominated By Obama To Broadcasting Board Of GovernorsPresident Obama has nominated Dana Perino, George W. Bush's last press secretary and a frequent critic of the new administration, to a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting.
News Media Ignoring Persecution of Christians Around the WorldIt is unrealistic to expect the same freedom of religion to exist in Iran or Egypt that exists in the U.S., but that doesn't mean we should be a nation where the persecution of Christians around the world is ignored by the media while Johnny Depp being named "Sexiest Man Aliv …
What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?This radical Christian's ministry for the poor, The Simple Way, has gotten him in some trouble with his fellow Evangelicals. We asked him to address those who don't believe.
Faith Organizations to Display Live Nativity Scene at the United States Supreme CourtWASHINGTON, Nov.
New "Don't Label Me" Billboard Campaign in the UKThe groups that brought you the "classlc" atheist bus ads are back with a billboard message that is sure to spark some great discussions:
Shlomo Carlebach's Reaction to the HolocaustI had the blessing of knowing Shlomo. While I was involved with a guru at the time, Shlomo patiently suggested I go live either in his "House of Love and Prayer" in San Francisco or at his Moshav at Modiin in Israel.
Church of Scientology and inquiryTHE inner workings of the Church of Scientology may face a public examination after the independent senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege to level a series of accusations against the controversial religion.
Barack Obama's Jewish half-brother "We've all heard about Michelle Obama's Jewish cousin, Rabbi Caspers Funnye. Now it turns out the Jewish people have an even closer link to the First Couple..."
No arrests for conservative Christians' anti-gay talkThe evangelical activists had been hoping to provoke arrest, because, as organizer Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission put it, "we'd have standing to challenge the law." But their prayers were not answered.
The American Family Assn. attacked Gap for not using the word 'Christmas' in its advertising -- but in fact it does, and in a big way too.The Mississippi-based American Family Assn. last week issued a fatwa against Gap Inc.
Reincarnation references in the BibleThere are certain laws that govern our existence here on planet Earth. Similar to the law of gravity, it makes no difference whether you "believe" in them or not...they still affect you.
Benedict XVI and the New Missionary Age"It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the Epoch in which the Roman Empire declined into …
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