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A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge.

The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City and St. Joseph says a tentative $10 million deal has been reached to settle 47 sexual abuse claims against a dozen clergy or former clergy.

A group of relatives of murder victims called on state lawmakers yesterday to repeal the death penalty, complaining that the long appeals process that accompanies capital murder prosecutions drags families ...

A Catholic priest's condemnation of miniskirts on an official church Web site is causing outrage among some Mexican women, who say the Roman Catholic Church is making it easier to justify sexual violence ...

"The only difference in Islam," says one imam to another , "is how a person should be killed." The cleric is speaking to Imam Muhsin Hendricks.

Sixty years is a short time in the church calendar, but the six decades since the founding Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in August 1948, have marked incalculable ...

Church officials say a Cape Cod priest has gone to his native Brazil after being accused of sexually assaulting a minor in Connecticut.

Aug 18, 2008 9:04 am US/Eastern Black Churches Confront HIV-AIDS Crisis CHARLOTTE, N.C. The black church - traditionally a loud voice for social change - has been curiously silent on the crisis of AIDS in the ...

Dilemmas posed by children who leave religion were the focus of a conference of rabbis and educators held last week in Jerusalem.

Much of the organized polygamy that takes place in Central and North America is rooted in the history of the Mormon Church.

PAUL advises women saying: "Wives submit yourselves unto your husbands, as it is fit in the Lord" . Although there are passages in Paul's letters that stated some obligations of husbands to their wives, his ...

The recent news report about convicted pedophile & murderer Joseph Edward Duncan III floored me when I first opened the link.

There could be more criminal cases against polygamist sect members in Texas. A state official says Texas Rangers are investigating roughly 20 alleged abuse cases and 50 alleged bigamy cases involving members of ...

The YouTube era has produced a few Catholic stars - priests whose performances have inspired scores of Web surfers to pass along e-mails full of grief or glee.

Which VP will keep Southern Baptists on-side? Mike has alerted me to a fascinating CBS News interview with Richard Land , who chairs the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the 'public-policy wing' of the ...

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard says he is ready to stand trial in Jordan over his controversial caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash, rabbis who determine whether a product meets Jewish dietary laws scrutinize ...

By DARREN BARBEE The Rev. Philip Anthony Magaldi, who was convicted of embezzlement and was accused by two people of separate but similar incidents of sexual abuse, died Tuesday.

Lolita Kapisova, who fled Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway Georgian republic of South Ossetia with her eight children, holds her baby daughter at an Orthodox convent in the Russian city of Alagir on ...

According to Mark E. Dupont, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Representative Daniel Bosley's call for a moratorium on Berkshire church closings and a community discussion of the issue "runs ...