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Trial Starts in Alleged Obama-Inspired Church Fire

Federal prosecutors portray Michael Jacques as a racist who was so upset when Barack Obama was elected president that he and two other white men burned down a predominantly black church in western Massachusetts.

Vatican tried to keep Irish child rapist as priest

The Vatican tried to stop Dublin church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a pub restroom, an investigation reported Frid...

Study: Happiness is having friends at church

A study finds that the social aspect of religion and a shared religious connection built around identity and belonging increase one's sense of ...

Bishop ‘regrets’ saying William and Kate won't last

There’s at least one Londoner who is not excited about the forthcoming royal wedding.

Facebook-banning NJ pastor acknowledges threesome

A pastor who said Facebook was a "portal to infidelity" and told married church leaders to delete their accounts or resign once testified that he had a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant....

U.S. forces say up to 24 dead in Iraq church attack

The U.S. military in Iraq said on Sunday that up to 24 people were killed in a church hostage taking incident in Baghdad, including up to 10 hostages.

Calif. church docs reveal decades of abuse allegations

Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests made nearly 10,000 pages of previously sealed internal church documents public Sunday, revealing at least one previously unknown decades-old case in which a priest under police investigation was allowed to leave the U.S. after the Diocese of San Diego intervened.