NEWARK, N.J. — When 7-year-old Amalya Knapp took the beam at the New Jersey state gymnastics finals last month, her excellent performance symbol...

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By Daniel Burke Religion News Service BALTIMORE (RNS) Martina Bagnoli admits that the exhibit she helps curate here at The Walters Art Museum may gro...

By Judith Sudilovsky Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS/ENInews) Israel has declined to renew a residency permit for Anglican Bishop Suheil Dawani ...

By Bob Smietana Religion News Service (RNS) Sometimes being a pastor is a real pain. But few pastors want to admit it. J.R. Briggs in trying ...

By Simone Gorrindo Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) When Anam Chaudhry, 17, sang the national anthem to several hundred protesters in Times Squar...

In late November, a group of harmonizing Yeshiva University students achieved over-night Internet fame with "Candlelight," their Hanukkah-themed remix...

By Piet Levy Religion News Service (RNS) Denice Beckerman is heavily involved in her daughter Amanda's life. She's tried several times to set her up ...

By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) A former FBI counterterrorism director on Tuesday (March 8) rejected allegations by the chairman of the ...

By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims get underway, a political...

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There is something -- well, everything, really -- about that spiritual experience that is ineffable and eternally elusive. It's no wonder, then, that ...

The power of art to reveal commonalities between seemingly distant sets of beliefs is powerfully displayed in an upcoming exhibit, entitled "Dis[Locat...

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Today, as HuffPost and AOL unite to launch the Huffington Post Media Group, we're celebrating by making a statement about the importance of giving bac...

By Hisashi Yukimoto Religion News Service TOKYO (RNS/ENInews) Christians in Japan are looking for survivors and assessing damage to church buildings ...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) As the extent of the death and destruction from the massive disaster in Japan comes into focus, religi...

By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA Today (RNS) When uncounted thousands have died in a disaster such as last week's earthquake and tsunami, where will the Ja...

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) A Smithsonian museum is restoring the "Jefferson Bible," a unique volume the third president cut and p...

By Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune NEW YORK (RNS) A Ugandan villager in the new Broadway musical from the creators of South Park offers a plai...

By Cathy Lynn Grossman USA Today (RNS) Talk about hellfire! One of the nation's rock-star-popular young pastors, Rob Bell, 40, has stuck a pitchfork ...

By Al Webb Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) A Church of England vicar has been arrested in Britain's second major police investigation in as many y...

By A. James Rudin Religion News Service (RNS) Japan was the scene of the devastating opening chapter of the atomic age, and now it may be writing the...

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By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Wolfgang Langhans, a Tokyo-based field director for missionaries, calls the week since the earthquake ...