FAITH & BELIEF

Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the ongoing religious violence in northern Nigeria, and pleaded with both Christians and Muslims to stop the killings.

Beheadings have a long and horrific history in India.

Caught in the middle of a bloody 15-month-long uprising are Syria's 2 million Christians, who are wary of leaving behind a repressive and totalitarian regime.

Christian missionaries held an anti-Islamic protest at the Dearborn, Mich., Arab International Festival and taunted Arab-Americans with a pig's head mounted on a pole while shouting You're gonna burn in hell, according to reports Saturday.

The book ?Founding Myths? was particularly critical of what Garaudy viewed as excessive Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy.

Leaders from the religious organization that represents the majority of U.S. nuns met with senior Vatican officials to discuss deficiencies in the doctrinal assessment issued by the Holy See in April.

Charges of anti-Semitism have been leveled against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is his re-election campaign over state media content that brands opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski as a Zionist.

Pastor Creflo Dollar was arrested Friday by Georgia police after his daughter alleged the mega church pastor physically assaulted her. The 50-year-old televangelist denied allegations during his Sunday morning services at World Changers Church in Atlanta.

Israel received about 4,600 asylum applications from Africans last year, according to the U.S. State Department. About 3,700 were rejected, while only one was approved. The others are pending.

Creflo Dollar, the influential pastor and founder of World Changers Church International, a megachurch near Atlanta, was arrested on Friday for allegedly choking his 15-year old daughter.

The ad in question, which features a photo of a Catholic priest being shot and killed, asks readers, Will Obama and the Democrats Shoot Catholics and Christians?

The Internet has been on high alert for zombies since last Saturday, when a 31-year-old homeless man from Miami named Rudy Eugene was discovered chomping on another homeless man's face and neck before he was shot and killed by police.

Pope Benedict XVI said on Wednesday he is saddened by the scandal surrounding the Vatican, but added that the media's coverage of Vatileaks is exaggerated and gratuitous.

A Vatican special commission is investigating whether the Pope's butler arrested in connection with a leak scandal had accomplices.

New York City restaurant Serendipity 3 already makes the world's most expensive sundae, but the Upper East Side eatery can now also claim the world's most expensive hamburger, too. On May 22, Serendipity 3 set the Guinness World Record for the world's most expensive hamburger with its Le Burger Extravagant, a sandwich that will set you back $295, and likely several hundred calories.

Many pastors have been adverse to President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, but North Carolina Pastor Charles Worley, took it a step too far in his sermon by sharing his methodology to get rid of homosexuals.

A Beaverton, Ore. Church is suing a woman over a bad Google review of the Beaverton Grace Bible Church, claiming the review and other allegedly defamatory acts were payback for dismissing a former church employee.

Chinese officials summed a UK ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in an official complaint against British Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The two dignitaries spoke with the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, on May 14.

China denied allegations Monday by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, that it was plotting to assassinate him using poison and trained female agents posing as Buddhist pilgrims.

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has alleged that Chinese agents are plotting to kill him with the help of Tibetan women.

A Moroccan woman was reportedly stripped off her cloths in broad daylight after an ultra-conservative Islamist sect deemed her attire to be too revealing and not in line with religious code of conduct in the country.

Six Buddhist monks were caught smack in the middle of a controversy, after a video showing the leaders performing illegal activities was aired on television networks, days ahead of a South Korea's religious holiday that marks the birth of Buddha.The controversial clip exposed the senior monks drinking, smoking and gambling with thousands in cash at stake involved. The incident, which reportedly happened in a luxury hotel room late April, was taped in secret and was released to the media a...

The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the Legion of Christ religious order over charges of sexual abuse of minors that go back several decades.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and House Republicans are at loggerheads over the severe cuts to social safety net programs in a proposed budget reconciliation package.

Delta Air Lines has decided to pull ads from ?The Daily Show with John Stewart? after the comedian featured a segment with a ?vagina manger? joke that angered conservatives and Catholics alike.

On Tuesday, India?s Supreme Court directed the central government to slowly eliminate its Hajj subsidy program, which partially covers travel costs for Indian Muslims? sacred pilgrimages to Mecca.

Vice President Joe Biden received a warm welcome from Conservative rabbis Tuesday as he sought to reassure American Jews about President Barack Obama's commitment to Israel and defend his diplomatic strategy with Iran.

Cardinal Sean Brady did not act upon his knowledge to stop the sexual abuse of children after a 1975 church investigation.

Pastor Joel Osteen declared on Sunday being gay is a sin, but insisted he does not discriminate against homosexuals, before calling Mormons true Christians.