The church ended speculation that it would sever ties with the Boy Scouts of America because of the Scouts’ decision to let openly gay adults serve as leaders.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation issues a report claiming that the chaplains, who are all Christian, allow "football coaches to impose their personal religion on players."
The Arkansas secretary of state’s office has denied a request from the Universal Society of Hinduism to place a privately funded Hindu statue on Capitol grounds.
The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island is establishing a slavery museum and reconciliation center in an old cathedral as part of an effort to acknowledge its own complicity in the slave trade.
Mr. Carter, the 90-year-old former president, taught Sunday school here in his hometown for the first time since he disclosed on Thursday that cancer had spread to his brain.
(Reuters) Local churches and other groups are offering to house the portrait, which had hung in the school since at least the 1950s, and community leaders have been working to defuse anger over its removal.
The scandals of recent years have destroyed popular support for the church in Ireland, with many Irish people ignoring the hierarchy's guidance on social issues.
Scheduled apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje have drawn tens of millions of believers and suspicion from skeptics, including, perhaps, Pope Francis.
"We got to know our neighbors in the surrounding community in a way we probably wouldn’t have otherwise, because we did all have to work through it together. And so in these last 10 years I would say we have been much more part of the community where we’ve been a building for over a hundred years," says David duPlantier, dean of Episcopal Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans. More →