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Christianity
Susan Sherman, a teacher who had recently returned from a mission trip to Kenya, has resigned amid swirling frustration and fears about Ebola. After returning from…
Catholicism
Attendance is falling so low that New York will close some parishes and merge others. How will the Catholic Church respond to reinvigorate the faithful? As…
Catholicism
Pope Francis delivered an off-the-cuff mini-encyclical on the rights of the poor, the injustices of unemployment and the need for environmental protection Tuesday, saying he’s not…
Atheism
Over 5 decades after the nation outlawed religious practice, a community in Tampa has helped raise the funds necessary to build Cuba’s first Catholic church. With…
Atheism
Raelians expose “Catholic fraud” with scientific study, demonstrate that host wafers are simply bread. Raelian scientists have recently undertaken DNA testing of host wafers, which is…
Catholicism
Pope Francis has become the latest pope to affirm that the Catholic Church sees no contradiction in natural evolution and creation, returning the spotlight to an…
Catholicism
Elton John called Pope Francis “my hero” for his compassion and push to accept gays in the Catholic church at his annual AIDS benefit in New…
Buddhism
Moscow’s first Buddhist temple, symbolizing Russia’s religious diversity and promoting friendly inter-confessional and inter-ethnic relations, will be built in Russia’s capital by 2017. A first in…
Catholicism
Pope Francis and the Vatican issued a statement about same-sex couples, but after conservative Catholics criticized it, the document was relabeled as a draft. While Catholicism…
Agnosticism
“Secularism is probably the one big issue for our century. This century is not, as many still think, marked by a religious or spiritual revival. What…
Catholicism
Despite being a small minority, only 2% of the population, Catholicism celebrates 500 years in Myanmar. Formerly known as Burma, The Republic of the Union of Myanmar –…
Anglicanism
Representative Jim Sensenbrenner has converted to Catholicism despite his and the Church’s opposing opinions on immigration. Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican representative from Wisconsin, recently converted to…