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Vicar-turned-author Rev G P Taylor says he will desert the "sinking ship" Church of England, which he said was the "spiritual arm of New Labour", for Roman Catholicism.

First responders use a table as a stretcher to transport a wounded Soldier to an awaiting ambulance at Fort Hood, Texas, Nov.

A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be given broadcast access to their pastors.

FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" - an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" - before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.

IN the matter of the murderous major at Fort Hood, everything at this point is speculation.

A classmate of the Fort Hood shooting suspect says Maj. Nidal Hasan was an outspoken opponent of the U.S. war on terror and called it a "war against Islam." Dr.

A classmate of the Fort Hood shooting suspect says Maj. Nidal Hasan was an outspoken opponent of the U.S. war on terror and called it a "war against Islam." Dr.

Laxmi Nagar is a district not far from the Yamuna River in New Delhi. It is like a sprawling Indian rural village transplanted into the metropolis, as many of its residents are from the countryside.

A classmate of the Fort Hood shooting suspect says Maj. Nidal Hasan was an outspoken opponent of the U.S. war on terror and called it a "war against Islam." Dr.

The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season. Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis' resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly.

U.S. mosques fearful of a backlash after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas are stepping up security.

At his weekly public audience on November 4, Pope Benedict XVI used the debate between St.

A foundation that supports gay rights has delivered a petition to Mormon church leaders asking them to reconsider their policies and political activism against gay marriage.

It is not un-Islamic to sing 'Vande mataram', two prominent Muslim groups in Madhya Pradesh said Thursday, two days after the clerics' body Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind approved an earlier fatwa against the national song.

A third woman has filed a paternity claim against Paraguay's Roman Catholic bishop-turned- president, her lawyer confirmed Thursday.

In what may be the first recorded instance of a Muslim wife attempting to murder her husband for not being pious enough, a Staten Island woman was charged this week with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

It's hard to believe that it's already been five years since Dutch Filmmaker/Artist Theo van Gogh was the victim of a gruesome murder as he biked to work on a beautiful Amsterdam street.

Myspace.com The murder of a 20-year-old Muslim girl by her father in an Arizona parking lot is a reminder that, even in America, some women pay the ultimate price for Western freedoms.

Jurors in the first criminal trial following the raid of a polygamist group's Texas ranch have convicted a member of sexual assault of a child.

Federal officials began the process of choosing creditor representatives in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's Chapter 11 bankruptcy by meeting with diocesan officials behind closed doors Wednesday.