KATMANDU, Nepal -- A Nepalese teenager revered by many as a reincarnation of Buddha has returned to the jungle to meditate after emerging for less than two weeks, officials said Saturday.
Shortly after sunrise one Tuesday last month, tragedy visited my backyard. A yelp and a crash broke the early-morning silence and led my husband to discover our upstairs neighbor unconscious in the garden.
'Wanna own your own slave?" Jason asked over coffee in his California kitchen one morning last week.
Churches in the nation's capital have started extending invitations to President-elect Barack Obama and his family, touting their African-American roots, their ties to presidents past and to Obama himself.
Like many in this troubled economy, Shirley Forte has wallet issues. But atypically, she wants to get them into more hands. And Salem Baptist Church is working to help her -- as well as other entrepreneurs pushing products and services at a black business expo on Saturday.
Before Grammy-winning songwriter/music director Donald Lawrence even announced the runner-up, the Rev. Bernard Sutton turned to his wife and others sitting with them in the arena seats and shouted, “We won!” Then he tore off down the steps toward the stage.
BALTIMORE -- The nation's Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."
Cardinal Francis George told a gathering of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Monday that continued support for abortion rights will undermine any advances in social justice that come from a new president and Congress.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told his congregation Sunday he saw a "oneness of spirit" among the multitudes who rallied and celebrated Barack Obama's presidential victory at Grant Park and around the nation -- a victory, he contends, God directed.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests sent a letter to Cardinal Francis George on Sunday asking for his resignation as president of America's bishops for allegedly ignoring years of sexual abuse within the church and allowing a convicted sex offender to work for Chicago's archdiocese.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Pastor Shirley Caesar-Williams opened her sermon Sunday at Mount Calvary Word of Faith Church with a prayer of thanks for the election of Barack Obama — at the risk of her flock getting ‘‘more excited over this than you do over the word.’’
The Episcopal Church's Diocese of Quincy, Ill., on Saturday became the third theologically conservative diocese to broken away from the liberal denomination in a long-running dispute over the Bible, gay relationships and other issues.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- It's 11 a.m. Saturday, and whiskey is flowing at the big houses on fraternity row at the University of Alabama. Guys in ties and baseball caps are laughing and dancing with sorority girls in bright dresses as a band blares away just around the corner.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in his first public speech after the election of President-elect Barack Obama, stuck to noncontroversial topics Friday as he addressed 1,200 Northwestern University students as well as members of his congregation at Northwestern University in Evanston.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--_ Billy Graham has counseled every American president since Dwight Eisenhower. But the evangelist known for his globe-trotting crusades has no plans to mentor Barack Obama, though his son did say his father would like to meet the president-elect and pray with him.
Cathleen Falsani: Just after the clock struck 10 p.m. Tuesday in Grant Park, and Wolf Blitzer's voice boomed across the Obama election night rally announcing that the junior senator from Illinois would, indeed, become the 44th president of the United States, almost everyone (including many members of the press corps) cheered.
Rarely are we able to glimpse the big picture from our vantage point, mired in the details of the here-and-now.
Cathleen Falsani: A few hours before the bodies of Jennifer Hudson's murdered mother and brother were discovered in Englewood last Friday, across town one of the world's greatest peacemakers began his remarks at the Hotel Intercontinental by addressing head-on Chicago's daunting problem with violent crime.
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.---- Crystal Cathedral founder Rev. Robert H. Schuller has removed his son as preacher on the church's weekly ''Hour of Power'' syndicated TV broadcast.
