Topic: Europe
A major US study released Monday put the total number of Christians worldwide at 2.18 billion -- almost a third -- of the estimated global population of 6.9 billion.Christians make up as big a proportion of the world's population as they did ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Angry Indian lawmakers forced parliament to close Monday and protesters gathered outside a Russian consulate over a Siberian trial calling for one of Hinduism's most holy books to be put on a list of banned literature that includes ...
The Church of England will not permit gay civil partnership ceremonies on its premises without the express permission of its general assembly, it said on Saturday.New laws allowing same sex "weddings" to be conducted in places of worship in England and Wales ...
A new series of reports into Irish Catholic dioceses on Wednesday revealed horrific child sex abuse by priests and mistakes by Roman Catholic Church authorities in dealing with them.Some of the cases detailed by the Church's own child protection watchdog occurred as ...
A relic said to have belonged to the Virgin Mary left Russia Monday after a tour that saw it worshipped by three million people in a potent display of the power of the Russian Orthodox Church.The Belt of the Virgin Mary attracted ...
Sikh athletes and spectators will be able to wear ceremonial daggers around the London 2012 Olympic sites, organisers said Sunday.Security will be tight at all Games venues, with Britain prepared to deploy surface-to-air missiles to protect London during the event, Defence Secretary ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians lined up outside Moscow's central cathedral Saturday for a chance to kiss a relic of the Virgin Mary brought from a Greek monastery a few weeks before a parliamentary election.The Cincture of the Virgin ...
Annihilated by Nazi Germany and largely forgotten by Poles, lost Jewish culture is re-emerging in Poland as youngsters scour their communities, searching for traces of Jewish life as it once existed.In Konskie, a small town of 20,000 people located 130 kilometres (80 ...
Hundreds of hardline Islamists protested outside France's embassy in Cairo on Friday against a French satirical newspaper that published pictures of the Muslim prophet, the state MENA news agency reported.The news agency quoted Khaled Said, the spokesman of the Salafi group that ...
Germany on Wednesday marked the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi pogrom that paved the way to the Holocaust with solemn ceremonies throughout the country and the opening of a new synagogue.The Kristallnacht pogrom, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, saw ...
Photo Gallery
-
Hawks Kings Basketball
Atlanta Hawks guard Jamal Crawford,left, shoots over Sacramento Kings guard Beno ...AP News - -
Blue Jackets Coyotes Hockey
Columbus Blue Jackets' R.J. Umberger (18) scores a goal against Phoenix ...AP News - -
Wild Devils Hockey
New Jersey Devils' Andy Greene (6) and Minnesota Wild's Martin Havlat ...AP News -
