The five Americans detained in Pakistan told a court Monday that they intended to wage jihad against Western forces in Afghanistan.
The U.S. bishops are trying to mobilize Catholics to support comprehensive immigration reform. Does that mean their work on health-care is over?
A new report found that there were 1,230 crimes committed against churches in the U.S. last year. Seven hundred were burglaries.
Mary Daly, a leading Catholic feminist theologian, died on Sunday. Archbishop Jerome Listecki took over the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Monday.
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church said her denomination is making a “major transition” from print publications to electronic media, particularly on news stories.
The Obama administration’s mandate that airplane travelers from 14 mostly Muslim countries be subjected to extra security checks has ticked those countries off. The Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a U.S. plane on Christmas was not deeply religious before he visited Yemen in 2004, a former teacher told Reuters.
The Danish artist who drew a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad doesn’t blame police for not protecting him from an axe-wielding attacker. “To me, it was just another day at the office,” he said of his cartoon. A Swiss man has built a minaret to protest his country’s recent ban on the tower-like structures that often adorn mosques.
Archbishop of York John Sentamu, a native of Uganda, says he’s “not quite happy” with Uganda’s proposed anti-gay laws. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said that the recently ended aughts were a “terrible and grueling ten years in all kinds of ways.” Atheists in Ireland plan to challenge the country’s new blasphemy laws.
The Vatican says more than 2.2 million people attended papal events in 2009, slightly higher than 2009, but well short of 2006, Pope Benedict XVI’s first year as pontiff, when 3.2 million attended papal events. China has sentenced an influential Tibetan lama to eight and a half years in prison.
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