RELIGION

The mandate under the Affordable Care Act requires Catholic-affiliated institutions like hospitals and colleges to offer health care plans that cover contraception at no cost.

Jeremy Lin's amazing plays for the New York Knicks has some sports fans swapping Tebow Mania for Linsanity. But one fan of Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is unwavering in his devotion: Jeremy Lin himself. He's a polarizing figure, but the things he says in interviews, his approach to the game, is just unbelievable, Lin, a fellow devout Christian, said in a recent interview.

Gutierrez called out Gingrich for labeling President Obama the food stamp president (watch here), and revealed the actual food stamp president was not a Democrat, but a Republican: George W. Bush. Gutierrez also tore into the former Speaker on Wednesday for relying on politically punchy and racially volatile props to sustain his presidential campaign.

The top Republican in the Congress on Wednesday denounced President Barack Obama's new rule on contraceptives as an assault on religious freedom and vowed to overturn it, as the White House sought to prevent the issue from becoming an election-year liability.

For the Missionary Church of Kopimism, which holds the computer commands CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols, Internet is the altar, information is holy and copying is a sacrament.

A petition by Doctors for America urges the Obama administration to maintain the contraception mandate that has been attacked by conservative Republicans.

Online dating sites aren't any better at matchmaking than randomly approaching a person in a bar, according to new research.

Romney's views on contraception oscillate to fit his political agenda.

Paisley is the very symbol of Protestant Northern Ireland and a strong supporter of the Union with Great Britain.

The Obama administration is willing to work with Catholic universities, hospitals and other church-affiliated employers to implement a new policy that requires health insurers to offer birth control coverage, a top adviser to the president's re-election campaign said on Tuesday.

Deborah Feldman had finally had enough. After 23 years of living in what she describes as an oppressive and insular community, she abandoned her Hasidic Jewish sect for a life of freedom. In her new book, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, Feldman details a life of strangling oppression.

The election in Uttar Pradesh, a state that would be the world's fifth most populous nation if independent, could have a bearing on who next governs India. It is a closely fought four-way race pitting Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the elite Gandhi dynasty, against Dalit leader Mayawati and two other parties.

Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum rejuvenated his presidential hopes on Tuesday with a shocking sweep of the three nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, dealing a blow to wounded front-runner Mitt Romney.

The Lantern Festival or Shangyuan Festival Monday marked the end of the 15-day-long Chinese New Year celebrations which started Jan. 23.

Magnolia Pictures announced on the occasion of Bob Marley’s birthday that they have acquired U.S. rights to Marley, a documentary about the legendary musician.

There is one single factor that unites all Malayalis (commonly referred to as Mallus) on Earth. It is the kappa factor or our love for tapioca.

An Egyptian military delegation abruptly cancelled its meetings with U.S. lawmakers to return to Cairo Monday after warnings from both Congress and the White House that Egypt's crackdown on non-governmental groups could threaten its $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid.

I have never been enamored with the NFL.

Nevada, the first-in-the-west caucus, is choosing its Republican presidential nominee for 2012 elections Saturday. The trial polls do indicate a Mitt Romney victory in the state, which has very high Mormon population.

Olivia Wilde has some good things to say about divorce.

Tom Tancredo, a former Colorado congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, endorsed Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, giving a small boost to Santorum's long-shot campaign after he finished a distant third in the Florida primary.