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The Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay boys prompted some supporters and critics of the new policy to swing into action Friday.

A portrait of Father Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi, an outspoken anti-Mafia advocate, hangs over about 80,000 people during his beatification ceremony in Palermo on May 25, 2013.

Gay rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in Moscow but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at a demonstration which went ahead despite a court order.

The B-Mets trailed 5-0 after two innings and 8-3 going into the eighth but they tied the score 8-8 going into the ninth and ultimately lost 10-9. The Binghamton Mets begin their Memorial Day weekend series against the Portland Sea Dogs Friday night at NYSEG Stadium.

Hundreds of mourners lined the streets of Dalton yesterday to pay their respects and honor Army Spc.

The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts.

St. James Episcopal Church in Derby was vandalized earlier this month when rocks were thrown through stained glass windows and a nativity scene.

The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists to help some of its faithful cope with the devil.

People from all three of the Abrahamic faiths like the quote from the Old Testament: "Am I my brother's keeper?" But as often as not they misconstrue its meaning, and forget its context.

A suspended Catholic priest in Davenport will return to the ministry after a diocese investigation did not substantiate an allegation that he inappropriately touched a minor in 1990.

An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government.

The North American branch of the 'Irish' Christian Brothers will pay $16.5 million to more than 400 people who were sexually molested as children by members of the Roman Catholic order that operates schools and orphanages around the world.

In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.

This film image released by HBO shows Michael Douglas, left, as Liberace, and Matt Damon, as Scott Thorson in a scene from "Behind the Candalabra," premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO.

A Ukrainian court on Thursday banned what would have been Ukraine's first-ever gay pride demonstration, upholding a suit by city authorities, who argued the rally would disturb annual Kiev Day celebrations and could spark violence.

It may not be the norm in central Texas, but chances are someone you know may actually be an atheist.

In the homily to his morning Mass Wednesday, Pope Francis said that Christians must stop perpetuating narrow definitions of 'good' and embrace atheists as God does - for the work they do to make the world a better place, reports Raw Story.

Tribune File Photo Volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help a homeowner clean up debris in the Cornerstone area in Windsor back in 2008.

El Salvador's president meets with Pope Francis on Thursday amid mounting indications that the stars have finally aligned to beatify assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero.

Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date.