religion

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Declaring that "today is a time of mercy," Pope Francis on Sunday closed a historic meeting of bishops that approved an important ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Muslim prayers at a major Jerusalem shrine, the epicenter of weeks of unrest, ended peacefully Friday after Israel lifted r...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's upcoming general elections are making history by having three women campaigning to lead the nation, with one almost cer...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Work on Barcelona's breathtaking La Sagrada Familia Basilica, designed by visionary architect Antoni Gaudi, has entered its fi...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Wednesday categorically denied a report in an Italian newspaper that Pope Francis has a small, curable brain tumor,...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A 19-year-old Indiana University student accused of trying to remove a Muslim woman's headscarf and shouting racial slurs say...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen went on trial Tuesday over comments she made five years ago comparing Muslim street prayers to a fo...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt granted government workers a half-day off on Monday in an attempt to boost low turnout in the first legislative elections since a c...

CAIRO (AP) — A mix of voters' apathy and frustration characterized elections held Sunday for Egypt's first legislature in more than three years, a cha...

DESERET RANCH, Fla. (AP) — Under one of the biggest land development plans ever proposed in Florida, a tract more than six times the size of Manhattan...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — Beards without moustaches, the trademark of ultraconservative Islamists, were all the rage at this campaign rally, among both...

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — The fatal beating of a teenager at his church erupted during a counseling session over his desire to leave the congregation,...

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian wearing a T-shirt with the word "press" in large letters stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier Friday before b...

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A woman charged with beating her teenage son to death inside a church felt helpless to stop an intervention that spiraled in...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian voters head to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament, the first since the military-led ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Mo...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal on Sunday rejected the idea of sharing the administration of the annual hajj pilgr...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish and Muslim grassroots groups, self-declared defenders of their faiths, have played a key role in rising Israeli-Palestinian te...

HELSINKI (AP) — The sixth in line to the Swedish throne, the newborn son of Princess Madeleine and New York banker Christopher O'Neill, was baptized S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black men and women joyously returned to the National Mall on Saturday for the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, calling fo...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — African-American Mormons discussed the ongoing challenges of belonging to a predominantly white religion Friday during a univers...