(RNS) Some Major League Baseball teams are opening their seasons on Friday, setting up a scheduling conflict with Jews observing Passover and Christians marking Good Friday. By Daniel Burke

NEW YORK (RNS) Tim Tebow is Howdy Doody in a helmet, Opie Taylor running for touchdowns -- while reciting Bible verses, stopping to find a lost dog, visiting sick children in a hospital and helping a little old lady across the street, all before he reaches the end zone. By Kevin Manahan.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has withdrawn its support from a soccer tournament between Rome's seminaries, saying the tournament had lost its "educational" value. By Alessandro Speciale.

(RNS) Combining a love of sports and passion for the saints, the online "Lent Madness" competition includes 32 saints from the Episcopal calendar of saints who are eliminated one by one through online votes. By Annalisa Musarra.

(RNS) "We could probably count on one hand the number of Asian-Americans who speak out as prominent Christians.," said Melanie Mar Chow of the Asian American Christian Fellowship, a campus ministry. "It's great to have a role model like him."

(RNS) Christian leaders are joining with animal rights defenders to advocate against cockfighting, calling the sport antithetical to biblical values. By Chris Herlinger.

Evangelicals debate the ethics of cage-fighting, George Soros channels Harold Camping, Alaska Airlines stops handing out prayer cards, we reveal “most exciting archival discovery in the post-Reformation era.”