Topic: Religion

Openly gay Ricky Martin sets a bad moral example for the country's youth, an ecumenical group of religious leaders sayRicky Martin's request for a Honduran visa is being challenged by an ecumenical group of religious leaders who say the singer sets a ...

British home gets Sistine Chapel makeover

A retired British decorator has transformed his home by covering its interior in renaissance-style murals to emulate the Sistine Chapel after being inspired by a book about the Vatican.Robert W. Burns, 64, swapped his roller for a more delicate paintbrush after buying ...
Pope Benedict XVI was to lead historic prayers Friday with Protestant leaders in the German monastery where Martin Luther studied, on the second day of his trip to his increasingly secular homeland.The 84-year-old has stressed his goal of unity in the Christian ...

Holy Land clerics bless Palestinian UN bid

Priests in the Holy Land used their sermons on Sunday to give their blessing to the Palestinians' bid for United Nations membership.The retired Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, the first Palestinian to hold the post since the Crusades, was to preach ...
Beijing-backed religious groups hit out at the US after it reaffirmed China's status as a country "of particular concern" on religious freedom, accusing Washington of trying to harm the nation's image.The US State Department this week released its International Religious Freedom report ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged governments Tuesday to do more to defend religious freedom as Washington released a report citing eight countries with troubling records on the issue."We reaffirm the role that religious freedom and tolerance play in building stable ...

Australian senator names sex-claim priest

An Australian lawmaker on Tuesday named a Catholic priest as having allegedly raped an Anglican archbishop in violent attacks dating back about 50 years.Independent senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege to identify the man as Monsignor Ian Dempsey after the Church declined ...
Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Herman Cain said Monday that religious rights should trump the rights of gay couplesPresidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Herman Cain said Monday that the rights of religious groups should trump the rights of gay and ...

All 21 aboard Chile air force plane dead

All 21 people aboard the Chilean air force plane that crashed into the Pacific on its way to a remote archipelago died instantaneously, the defense minister said."Based on observations and the search we carried out with the air force commander, we have ...
The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission criticised a major television station for giving into Islamists' demands that a film on religious tolerance be pulled.The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) had threatened to storm SCTV headquarters if it broadcast a movie titled "?", scheduled for the ...