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Once upon a time, animal sacrifice was an important part of Hindu life, Catholic priests weren't celibate and visual depictions of the Prophet Muhammad were part of Islamic art.

Michael Fitzpatrick gets a blessing from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at the KFC Yum! Center on May 20, 2013.

A Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Newark was criminally charged today with violating a court-sanctioned agreement that bars him from working with children for life.

Police said dozens of ultra-Orthodox men assaulted two haredi IDF soldiers in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood Sunday night, resulting in the hospitalization of both victims.

The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

A retired Church of England priest found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on young children at a Barnardo's home has been jailed for 10 years.

Shaiel and Charlie Yitzhak both work hard - he as an English teacher, she as a physical therapist working with wounded Israeli soldiers.

Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of worship.

A GROWING number of worshippers are going to Anglican churches in the Diocese of Oxford, bucking a national trend for falling attendance.

TWO of the most senior archbishops in the country have differed on whether pro-choice Catholics should be prevented from receiving communion.

The Catholic Church unveiled a new iPad application this week, intended to keep the faithful abreast of Vatican comings-and-goings, as well as other news from the church's missions throughout the world.

Unrest: Policemen try to stop an Orthodox Christian activist during clashes at rally in Tbilisi on Friday.

Euphoria, on South Street, has served the town since December 1994 after local DJ and entrepreneur Mark Mifflin received planning permission to change the former Jehovah's Witness' kingdom hall into a nightclub.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley gestures during a press conference at the North American College in Rome, Italy, on March 14.

French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent is what Russia needs as a leader.

Meretz MK: Bayit Yehudi in charge of religious services is just a change from a black kipa to a knitted one.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid said Thursday the harshest cuts in his controversial budget were aimed at haredim in hopes of pushing them into the labor force.

A Cape Cod Episcopal priest has been suspended for allegedly plagiarizing more than a dozen sermons verbatim from a book.

The Rev. Michael Fugee in 2003 after a jury in Bergen County found him guilty of aggravated criminal sexual contact.

Janeen Johnson, from Malta, Idaho, speaks up during a training exercise at Mission House for Middle Tennessee Latter-day Saints.