A Superior Court judge called the power struggle that resulted in machete violence at a Sikh temple “disgraceful” and he doesn’t have praise for the resulting legal aftermath.

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have rejected a compromise on birth control coverage that President Obama offered on Friday and said they would continue to fight the president's plan to find a way for employees of Catholic hospitals, universities and service agencies to receive free contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans, without direct involvement or financing from the institutions.

Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins doesn’t like being called the archdiocese’s CEO.

The right of Christian worship in schools and Parliament faces a fresh assault after a High Court judge banned prayers at council meetings.

Scores of religious congregations are scrounging for cheap space in New York City as they prepare to be evicted, on constitutional grounds, from rooms they've been renting at public schools.

Sealed documents filed in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee bankruptcy identify at least 8,000 instances of child sexual abuse and 100 alleged offenders - 75 of them priests - who have not previously been named by the archdiocese, a victims' attorney said Thursday.

When after much internal debate the Obama administration finally announced its decision to require religiously affiliated hospitals and universities to cover birth control in their insurance plans, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops were fully prepared for battle.

A culture of silence across Asia may be keeping many victims of clergy sex abuse there from coming forward, a top Asian church official told a Vatican-backed conference on Thursday.

The archbishops of Canterbury and York has avoided humiliation in the Church of England's law-making body, the General Synod, by putting off a split over the ordination of women bishops.

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday urged “profound renewal” of the Roman Catholic Church to prevent child abuse, as the Vatican held its first-ever summit on the issue despite protests by victims.

POPE BENEDICT would visit Ireland “soon rather than later” and was “actively considering” an invitation to this summer’s Eucharistic Congress, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said.

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny.

The Obama administration’s decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no matter their beliefs on contraception.

Republicans look at Mitt Romney and see a future nominee or a Massachusetts moderate they can't support.

At least 550 people filed sex-abuse claims against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee by Wednesday's deadline in its bankruptcy proceedings - by far the largest number of claims among the eight Catholic diocesan bankruptcies in the United States since 2004, and on par with a 2009 Jesuit bankruptcy that covered victims in five states.

The sectarian fault line in Syria is growing more apparent as the conflict steadily intensifies between the Alawite-dominated regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the mainly Sunni rebel Free Syrian Army.

The Dutch Cabinet moved a step closer Friday to banning the burqa, making good on an election promise that is largely symbolic but has broad public support.

It’s a huge question for observant Jews: How can one still believe in a merciful God after suffering through the worst genocide in history?

Plans to build a £1m "temple for atheists" among the international banks and medieval church spires of the City of London have sparked a clash between two of Britain's most prominent non-believers.

A top official with the Southern Baptist Convention said it's troubling that a casino magnate's $10 million is funding much of the effort to make Newt Gingrich president.