Harold Camping is at the heart of a mediapocalypse

Reporting from Oakland -- Harold Camping's promised final show Thursday night was much like his others. For an hour and a half, before a...

Report blames society for sexually abusive priests

Sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the United States is a "historical problem" that has largely been resolved and that never had...

Vatican orders bishops to set up guidelines against child sexual abuse

After months of anticipation, the Vatican issued a letter Monday that gives Roman Catholic bishops worldwide a year to come up with national...

Donation will allow Claremont School of Theology to train rabbis, imams

Leaders of the Claremont School of Theology will announce Monday the gift of $40 million from an Arizona couple to help expand the Christian...

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...

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,...

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...

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?"

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...