Preservationists seek to save historic Huntington Beach church buildings

The old church building looks forlorn at Warner Avenue and Nichols Street in Huntington Beach, its windows boarded up and the sign that juts...

Presbyterian Church votes to allow gay ordination

A debate that has raged within the Presbyterian Church for more than three decades culminated Tuesday with ratification of a measure...

12 dead in Muslim-Christian clashes in Egypt

Gunfire rang out as a priest and his congregation prayed Sunday inside a church that hours earlier had been set on fire by a Muslim mob in a...

Mobs set Egypt churches on fire, 10 killed

Muslim mobs set two churches on fire overnight in a Cairo slum during sectarian clashes that left 10 dead and more than 200 injured,...

Holding on to the Sikh heritage in the U.S.

On a recent Sunday in a classroom at the Sikh temple in Pacoima, nine young students sat scattered across four pews, an incongruous reminder...

Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified

As the leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the 14th Dalai Lama says he practices compassion to such an extent that he tries to avoid swatting...

Bin Laden's death may ease anti-Muslim sentiment in U.S.

The reactions reflected unalloyed joy and deliverance: It was "double good news," a "victorious day," the dawn of "a new era." These were...

Alabama tornadoes strike at heart of church community

Alabama pastor Tommie Lewis took one good look at his congregants and asked, "Why?"

KCET sells Sunset studio to Church of Scientology

Financially strapped KCET-TV has sold its landmark Sunset Boulevard studio to the Church of Scientology for an undisclosed price, the...

At juvenile hall, an exercise in forgiveness on Easter

Sylvia Guzman seemed unemotional for most of Sunday's sunrise Easter Mass outside a juvenile hall in Sylmar.

Study links willingness to cheat, viewpoint on God

A new study on the link between one's view of God and willingness to cheat on a test is the latest example of social scientists wading...

In Easter message, pope urges diplomacy in Libya

Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer Sunday for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to...

A friend's view of the Dalai Lama

When leading Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman gets together with the Dalai Lama, his friend of nearly 50 years, a lighthearted banter usually...

C.S. Lewis Bible provokes debate

At a time when the words of the late British novelist, scholar and lay theologian C.S. Lewis are reaching more people than ever, a newly...

Chinese police detain members of unregistered church

Chinese police on Sunday detained more than 100 churchgoers who tried to hold an outdoor prayer service on a pedestrian bridge in Beijing...

Last Supper was not Jesus' last supper, researcher says

The Last Supper was probably the next-to-last supper of Jesus' life, a British researcher has concluded after using ancient calendars and...

Former Los Angeles County prosecutor challenges God in his new book

As a prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi put Charles Manson behind bars. As an author, he outlined legal cases against O.J. Simpson, Lee Harvey...

Leaders of Conservative Judaism press for change as movement's numbers drop

Three hundred rabbis walk into a Las Vegas martini lounge. Bartenders scramble to handle the crowd — the rabbis are thirsty. Suddenly,...

After church fire, grieving parishioners attend Palm Sunday service

Alice Ameluxen wept as she stared Sunday at the burned-out shell that was the St. John Vianney Church. An arsonist's fire destroyed the...

Islamists in Egypt seek change through politics

Nageh Ibrahim once spoke of slaying infidels and creating an Islamic state that would stretch from the Nile Delta to the vast deserts of...