From the Biblical paradise of the garden of Eden to the contemporary retreat from urban chaos, trees have long provided shelter, shade and natural wonder….
An official from Iran has refuted claims that imprisoned pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will be executed after Ahmed Shaheed, the "special rapporteur for human rights in…
JERUSALEM — A Jerusalem court on Wednesday acquitted an Israeli collector of forging a trove of Bible-era artifacts but failed to determine whether a purported…
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) – Activists presented a petition Tuesday to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling on Pakistan to free a Christian mother of five from being put to death on the charge of blasphemy. A Pakistani court Asia Bibi guilty of defiling the name of the Prophet Mohammed during a [...]
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) – Mitt Romney’s losses in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday offered more stark evidence of a huge stumbling in his quest for the GOP nomination and the White House: his difficulty winning in the evangelical-rich Bible Belt. With Rick Santorum’s victories in Alabama and Mississippi, he and Newt [...]
Fears that a mosque would bring religious extremists, and even ties to terrorism, surfaced Tuesday when leaders of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee arrived at…
NORTHFIELD, Mass. — A billionaire family from Oklahoma has turned a no-stoplight town in Massachusetts into an essential destination for Christian institutions nationwide with one…
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana (CNN) – In a rare speech on state-controlled television, Cuba's Catholic cardinal said an upcoming visit by the pope would reignite the religious fervor in the island. Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino, the Archbishop of Havana, told viewers that Pope Benedict was visiting the island to "revive a sleeping faith, [...]
MONT VERNON, N.H. — Residents of a rural New Hampshire town have voted to rename a fishing and skating spot that’s been called Jew Pond…
By Anne Saker Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Peter Goodwin, the first doctor in Oregon to campaign publicly for the terminally ill to obtain…
