Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Bucharest
Got 48 hours to explore Romania's capital and its eclectic mix of western architectural ideas, eastern imagery, 20th century totalitarian megalomania and buzzing nightlife?
In his first major speech on finance, Pope Francis has called on economists, financiers and politicians to design a balanced financial system that benefits everyone. He says the current system is a corrupt "tyranny" which favors the rich over the poor.
The role of Arab Christians in the Middle East is more important today than ever before, the Palestinian bishop who leads the 70-million strong Lutheran World Federation has told a Danish church gathering.
After Catholic bishops in Kenya get a pro-condom TV ad pulled off the air, Catholics for Choice brings its Condoms4Life campaign to Nairobi.
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have lost the latest round in a legal battle to stay in the United States so they can homeschool their children. They say the German government persecuted them due to their wish to teach their children at home in order to stress their Christian faith. In its ruling, a U.S. appeals court said the Romeikes are not in a persecuted class. The group backing them says the fight is not over.
Two Syrian Christian bishops abducted by gunmen outside the besieged city of Aleppo on April 22 remain in their captors' hands despite calls that they should not be harmed and be released, and despite the condemnation of the kidnappings by all faiths.
As an immigration bill written by a "Gang of Eight" from both tha main U.S. political parties continues in the U.S. Senate, ecumenical voices have joined other faith leaders to speak out in support of the comprehensive measure. However, some seem wary of adding the issue of same-sex marriage to the dialogue.
There is an urgent need for unity among Christians in the Middle East Pope Tawadros II, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church says when he meets Pope Francis, who leads 1.3 billion Christians as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Turkey is investigating an alleged plot to assassinate Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, and has stepped up security around the patriarchate in Istanbul, his spokesman says. Spokesman Dositheos Anagnostopoulos says, however, the Patriarch is not taking the threat seriously.
Evidence is emerging that Kenneth Bae, sentenced to 15 years of hard labor at the end of April for anti-government activities was really doing missionary under the guise of taking tour groups into the country.
Once submerged by other issues, euthanasia and assisted suicide are back in the news. Recent controversial cases and efforts to spread its legalization are making headlines.
Ethnic Chins are taking advantage of a seemingly new political atmosphere in Myanmar to secure religious freedoms for all minorities.
Writer Raymond Ibrahim says that accepted Muslim doctrine, not extremism, is the cause of the difficulties faced by Christians in Islamic countries.
Opening Mass at the Church of St. Joseph in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha turns into a nightmare after a bomb blast described by the government as an "act of terrorism" kills two people, seriously injuring scores of others. It provokes increased tensions between the country's evenly split Muslim and Christian communities.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, urges Church of Scotland congregations not to "walk away" over the ordination of gay ministers at an upcoming general assembly of the Presbyterian church. Williams is now chairman of the British charity Christian Aid that works closely with the Church of Scotland. He made his statement in a newspaper interview with Scoltand on Sunday.
Got 48 hours to explore Romania's capital and its eclectic mix of western architectural ideas, eastern imagery, 20th century totalitarian megalomania and buzzing nightlife?
Oxygen Media has announced the production of a new series about the lives of controversial Southern Californian pastors and religious figures. From the same producers of BET's "The Sheards," the show hopes to lift the curtain on the lives of popular persons of faith.
In once Catholic majority France, Protestants have united to form one church bringing together Reformed and Lutheran Christians seeing it as an opportunity to express their faith in a new way during times of societal changes.
The Robertson family star in the hit television show "Duck Dynasty". It is one of the most viewed shows in the United States. Long involved in evangelism, the family is using their new fame to share the Gospel.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is embroiled in a developing scandal which implicates the agency in singling out conservative groups for political reasons. Among those who believe they have been intimidated is evangelist Franklin Graham.
The measure is the latest development in an emerging battle between conservative Christians, Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender activists and the schools over the rights of transgenders.
A national survey by Statistics Canada shows Christians are becoming a smaller proportion of the population as growing numbers of non-Christians immigrants come to the country. But most Canadians think that's okay.
Dr.Kermit Gosnell will face the death penalty in the killing of three babies during illegal abortions he performed at his clinic. He also was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient during an abortion.
Pope Francis has proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said many Christians were still being persecuted for their faith. The Vatican seemed at pains not to allow the first canonisations of Francis' two-month-old papacy to be interpreted as anti-Islamic, saying the deaths of the 'Otranto Marytrs' must be understood in their historical context.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the head of the Archdiocese of Boston, has decided to boycott commencement exercises at Boston College, a Jesuit school, because Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny will be speaking. Kenny is proposing a "clarification" of the Irish laws on abortion in order to protect the life of the mother. The Church says the current laws should not be left alone because and that Kenny's proposals make changes which are "morally unacceptable."
Holy Land church leaders condemn Israeli armed forces' action while deployed at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City as Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter calling on Israel to allow full access to Christians during Easter, the most important Christian event celebrating the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion.
During a Mass marking the May 1 feast of St. Joseph the Worker, Pope Francis denounced the economic systems causing last week's factory collapse in Dhaka.