ULM, Germany — A company that is printing German translations of the Quran to be given away by a fundamentalist Muslim group hinted Thursday that it wanted to stop after a controversy blew up over the project.
MIAMI —A Jewish plastic surgeon in Bal Harbour, Fla., hired a Jewish rock band in New York and a Jewish filmmaker in Broward, Fla., to make a promotional video, and everyone involved got what he wanted out of the deal: Free national publicity.
Aisha Saeed got engaged after six weeks — and only one face-to-face meeting with her husband-to-be.
The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., will soon begin the long process of determining whether the first North Carolina native to be ordained a priest should be declared a saint.
Mitt Romney’s tax returns reveal that the Republican presidential candidate does something fewer Americans do these days: He tithes.
Indeed, all life is a matter of the heart. Perhaps because of this biological certainty, that life ends when the heart stops, humans regard the heart as much more than simply an organ. It is a symbol of love and a metaphor applied to everything from athletic achievement to courage to despair. And it’s always present, beating inside our chests, until that final moment when the rhythm ends.
Some thoughtful folks may be wondering: Even if scientists find an explanation for the origin of life from nonliving matter, they haven’t explained where the inanimate matter came from. Our universe has a lot of it. Who created all that?
A judge ordered a Wichita pastor to stay away from the Islamic Society of Wichita, as part of a sentence for loitering and disrupting business.
INDIANAPOLIS — A judge declined to halt Indiana's broad new school voucher program, allowing the law to remain in effect while a group of teachers and religious leaders challenge it.
LONDON — Conservative Anglican leaders have rejected a proposed covenant to hold their global communion together just as the Church of England gave preliminary approval to the plan.
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — Nearly 3 million Muslims performing the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia climbed the rocky desert Mount Arafat on Monday, chanting that they have come to answer God's call.
ASAN, South Korea — Some 7,200 South Korean and foreign couples exchanged or reaffirmed marriage vows in the Unification Church's second mass wedding this year.
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