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John Travolta and Kelly Preston pose at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre 37th Anniversary Gala on August 5, 2006 in Hollywood, California.

A ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they were disembarking at a terminal in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 dead and scores missing, authorities said Saturday.

The Catholic Churcha s a dona t ask, dona t tella cover-up culture exposed in a damning clerical abuse report is dead and gone, a senior cleric said today.

The campaign posters are inflammatory: Minarets rising like missiles from the national flag.

ANGELUS OAKS, Calif. a " The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says a man charged with killing a housekeeper at a Seventh Day-Adventist forest camp had planned to shoot everyone there.Leith Hamilton has pleaded not guilty to killing 60-year-old Celebrada Lomito-Sexton on Nov.

Pope Benedict XVI says immigrant children must be fully integrated into their new societies and protected from the risks of exploitation.

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The Anglican diocese of New Westminster and four breakaway congregations must decide among themselves who should ultimately own four disputed church properties, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Wednesday.

Some two million Muslims headed to Muzdalifa on Thursday after spending the day at the plain of Arafat.

The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will hold talks next week with visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland faced another day of recriminations Thursday as the government prepared to publish an investigation into why child abuse by Dublin priests went unchecked for decades.

Same-sex marriage advances in one region, then retreats in another, making the United States a two- nation nation on this issue - now and for years to come.

The leader of the Galveston-Houston Catholic Archdiocese says he opposes any health care reform legislation that allows for even indirect federal funding of abortions.

A Catholic religious order is to supply a 161m euros package of measures as reparation for child abuse in Ireland.

The Fayetteville Observer reported Wednesday that state Sen. Larry Shaw said violent acts blamed on Muslims tarnish the image of Islam.

Rare, heavy rainstorms soaked pilgrims and flooded the road into Mecca, snarling Islam's annual hajj as millions of Muslims headed for the holy sites.

The governors of Virginia and Maryland say it would be wrong for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to quit providing social services if the District of Columbia approves gay marriage.

Talk about getting stuck with the cheap seats. The Pontiac Silverdome, built three decades ago for $56 million, is being virtually given away - sold at auction for a paltry $583,000. That comes out to $7.25 a seat, a fire sale that's reduced the once-proud arena to another sad symbol of the Detroit area's economic collapse.

The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300 alleged victims of clergy abuse have agreed on a settlement of almost $10 million.

Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of life without a creator.