RELIGION

Television polygamy drama Big Love returns for a fourth season in January with a gay storyline that is likely to stir up controversy in Mormon circles where homosexual relations are prohibited.

Oscar winner Nicole Kidman dodged British reporter Andrew Marr's question about her former husband's religion, Scientology in an interview on a BBC show.

Thousands of Jewish West Bank settlers and their supporters demonstrated near the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday to protest his 10-month building freeze.

The U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

There are 3 types of travelers in the world. One that travels while on a business tour, the other with first-aid box and a map, while the third traveler is the one who packs the bag with a tooth brush and paste. said a friend.

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated on Saturday at Intel Corp.'s new electronic chip plant in Israel in protest against work taking place at the site on the Jewish Sabbath.

The Vatican said on Monday its plan to allow married Anglican priests to convert to Catholicism does not signal any change to its age-old rule of celibacy for the overwhelming majority of Catholic priests.

If Opus Dei had a rough ride in the blockbuster movie based on Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, it looks set for an altogether more sympathetic portrayal in another film that deals with the Catholic organization.

In our society, we so often hear that we are unable to fully apprehend and enjoy anything unless it comes from our own culture. For instance, we hear that you cannot really appreciate jazz or blues music if you are white, or certain religious concepts or places unless you belong to that religion, and so on.

Israeli police stormed Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, hurling stun grenades at Palestinians who threw rocks at them, in another outbreak of violence at the holy city's most sensitive site.

The latest character to go 3D? Jesus Christ.

A German publisher said Tuesday it had canceled the printing of a murder mystery about an honor killing because it contained passages insulting Islam and may have prompted Islamist retaliation.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed the United States would keep relentless pressure on al Qaeda and ensure extremist networks, which he called a principle threat, do not find safe havens overseas.

Pope Benedict opened a synod of Roman Catholic bishops on Africa by denouncing the West's materialism and lack of moral values, which he said were contaminating the world's poorest continent like toxic waste.

A Muslim, a Catholic and an agnostic composer have contributed music to an album featuring Pope Benedict singing and reciting prayers, which is due for release in November.

Ah, in a perfect world this is the way it would be. We would be so in love that we couldn't wait to see each other; to smother each other in kisses and caresses; to tell each other of our day with all its intimate hurts and little glories.

Yom Kippur begins at sunset Monday will mark the end of the Jewish High Holy Days after it began with Rosh Hashana 10 days ago.

Pope Benedict, ending a trip to this highly secular nation, said on Monday the fall of communists who tried to erase religion was proof that God cannot be excluded from public life.

Israeli police fired tear-gas and stun grenades on Sunday to disperse some 150 Palestinians who began hurling stones as foreign tourists visited a sensitive religious site in the Old City.

Susan Atkins, one of the leading members of Charles Manson's notorious violent cult who carried out brutal murders at his behest in 1969, died in a California prison, her husband said on Friday. She was 61.

Member of the Manson cult, Susan Atkins, died Thursday night at the Central California Women's facility at 61.