Shut Down: that state-run art exhibit in the Phillipines that combined Christian and phallic symbols. Art patron Imelda Marcos and the Roman Catholic Church had strenuously objected.

AIDS is increasing in Muslim countries driven by gay sex and a culture reluctant to encourage safer sex.

In societies under stress, more people get religion and religious people are happier. When times improve, rates of religiosity fall, according to a new study.

The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers are dismissing Rev. Roy Bourgeois for refusing to renounce his belief that women should be ordained in the Roman Catholic Church

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, now of Philadelphia and formerly of Denver, fought hard against a bill to make it easier for Colorado victims of sex abuse to sue alleged perpetrators decades later.

Nearly all the GOP presidential candidates would roll back President Obama’s efforts to advance embryonic stem cell research, says the Boston Globe

Some conservative Christian theologians are concluding that Adam and Eve did not exist, reports NPR.

A Manhattan court sentenced a woman to a year and a day in jail for scamming thousands from a fund benefiting Holocaust victims. Polina Anoshina participated in a larger $42 million scam of the Claims Conference, which distributes restitution money from the German government.

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is at odds with the archbishop of Baltimore after the pol announced plans to sponsor a same-sex marriage bill.

Further south, a lesbian Baptist pastor in North Carolina is refusing to perform any marriages until gay marriage is legalized in her state.

– Jack Jenkins and Lauren Markoe