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Oklahoma's devastating tornado stirred up a theological debate that was set off from a series of deleted tweets referencing the Book of Job.

LONDON Leaders of Britain's 2.8 million Muslims reacted with horror and anger following Wednesday's slaughter with knives and machetes of an off-duty British soldier in the streets outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in south London.

In his two months as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, Pope Francis has captured the imagination not only of his own flock, but that of the world at large.

God is all good. God is all-powerful. Evil and tragedy happen. Pick two, as the saying goes, but all three of those postulations can't possibly be true.

AUSTIN, Texas Conspiracy theories like those accompanying the Benghazi and IRS-Tea Party foul-ups come and go in American political life.

Bailey most recently worked as managing editor for Odyssey Networks, covering religion through multimedia.

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Friday met with Pope Tawadros II , head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, an encounter that brought the number of popes within the Vatican walls to three this week.

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CANTERBURY, England The number of people attending Sunday services at Britain's Anglican churches is continuing to drop, but church officials say there are signs that the decline is starting to stabilize.

ST. LOUIS For 25 years, St. Louis University has been led by the Rev. Lawrence Biondi.

This is Gus. As you can see, Gus really likes avocados. As in, really really likes avocados.

NEW YORK A Tony-nominated play that offered a controversial take on the Virgin Mary reflecting on her life held its final performance on Sunday , closing after only two weeks as poor ticket sales never matched high expectations.

NEW YORK I sat with my gospel choir colleagues, in a pew, while the host choir at Park Avenue Synagogue rehearsed a lovely Psalm setting in Hebrew.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Rev. Frank Page, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was getting ready to work in the yard in the fall of 2009 when the phone rang.

Christian conservatives have grown increasingly alarmed in recent weeks over reports and rumors that the Pentagon is considering new policies aimed at discriminating against Christians and disciplining or even court-martialing those who share their faith.

JERUSALEM Religious leaders from around the world have stepped up their pleas for the safe return of two Syrian bishops who were kidnapped April 22 by armed men as they were driving near the war-torn city of Aleppo.

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John Paulk, who for years was known as the poster boy for the Christian "ex-gay" movement, has formally renounced his past and says he is "truly, truly sorry for the pain I have caused" in preaching that gays and lesbians could become straight through prayer and counseling.

SHREWSBURY, Mo. On a recent rainy Saturday, about 125 Catholics packed a basement conference room, many of them older, most of them lay people.

Reports this week that the late Pope John Paul II may be on the verge of sainthood after a second miracle was credited to his intercession aren't a huge surprise: When he died eight years ago, crowds were already clamoring for his canonization, and Pope Benedict XVI quickly waived the usual five-year waiting period to get the process rolling.