Amid the throngs of Sufi Muslim followers streaming through the white marble corridors of the Data Darbar shrine, a young man in a cream-colored tunic and oversized sunglasses shuffled gingerly, guided by a brother on one side and his father on the other.

The Southern Baptist Convention baptized fewer people in 2010 than any time since the 1950s and also saw declines in overall membership and attendance, according to internal figures released ahead of the denomination's annual meeting in Phoenix.

As the light turned red at the intersection of Crenshaw and Slauson, Brian Muhammad raised two pink pie boxes in his right hand and strolled up the sidewalk: "Bean pie! Bean pie!"

Though never short on spectacle, this year's annual gay pride festival was even more colorful with a parade float, sponsored by Google, representing the country's religious gay and lesbian communities.

Israeli policemen entered a sensitive Jerusalem holy site Friday and used stun grenades to disperse dozens of Palestinian protesters who were hurling stones at security personnel, police said.

You see them on Salt Lake City’s Temple Square nearly every day. They pace nervously or stroll aimlessly, staring down at the tulips or up at the spires.

One of the iconic images after a tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., was the enormous cross that remained standing above the rubble of St. Mary Catholic Church.

Islamic courts would be forced to acknowledge the primacy of English law under a bill being introduced in the House of Lords.

When the British Columbia government's polygamy reference case opened at the province's Supreme Court of Canada on Nov. 22, 2010, a stream of participants and witnesses, including representatives from the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, REAL Women of Canada, the Christian Legal Fellowship, and academic experts, testified about the many harms associated with polygamy.

The primary backer of an effort to get a ban on circumcision on the ballot in Santa Monica is abandoning her push, saying the proposed legislation had been misrepresented as an effort to impinge on religious freedom.

Timothy and Rebecca Wyland are the victims of religious persecution, inflexible bureaucrats and unreasonable expectations, a defense attorney said Monday in closing arguments.

Taxi driver Nabeel Langrial was talking to another cabbie near the Lumière Place casino last summer when an enforcement agent for the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission stopped to tell him his hat did not conform to the driver dress code.

During last year's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum, at a special viewing for the local Jewish community, two women stood confounded before the reproduction of the famed Isaiah scroll.

Performing a circumcision on a boy under age 18 — even for religious reasons — would be illegal under a measure that a San Diego group hopes to place on Santa Monica's November 2012 ballot.

A Hancock County church has become the first in the Indianapolis area to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America over the issue of allowing clergy who are openly gay.

In 1955, the Oxford historian Albert Hourani published an article entitled "The Vanishing Veil", predicting that the centuries-old practice would soon disappear from Muslim societies.

Four years after they first frightened France, Muslim creationists are back touring the country preaching against evolution and claiming the Koran predicted many modern scientific discoveries.

The Lord is no longer being invoked at Salisbury City Council meetings for now, though he just received a standing invitation to the gatherings of the Frederick County Commission.

New legislation proposed by a leading congressional watchdog would push the State Department to make international religious freedom a greater priority.

President Obama assured Hispanic Christians on Thursday (May 12) that he hears their pleas for immigration reform, calling it a "moral imperative" that requires action from the pews and the White House.