Pikesville resident Jeff Cohn is a fourth-generation Baltimorean who has kept kosher in the Orthodox Jewish tradition. In addition to eating only k...

WARNING: Some images of Ashura observance are graphic: Ashura, an optional fast day for Muslims that commemorates different things for Sunnis and...

Editor's note: The following is excerpted from "Beyond Religion" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

JERUSALEM — One of Israel's chief rabbis ventured into the divisive question of gender segregation on Monday, saying separate seating for men an...

By David Giambusso Religion News Service A teaching hospital will hire additional staff to help perform abortions after a group of nurses claimed ...

Most of my friends knew evangelicalism only through the big, bellicose voices of TV preachers and religio-political activists such as Pat Robertson, t...

Jacob sends angels to Esau, his brother, in Edom. He gives them a message to deliver: "My lord, Esau, your servant Jacob says, 'I've lingered with Laban as a stranger till now. I've accumulated flocks and servants. Please, my lord, find favor in your eyes.'"

The traditional depiction of the birth of Jesus takes a chocolatey twist in Lima, Peru. ...

By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) With its department-store-sized windows, the Kolben Dance Company's studio faces a busy do...

By Lukas Feireiss, co-editor of 'Closer to God: Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces' (Gestalten). Architecture addresses and expresses. It to...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and his family attended a worship service Sunday morning at an Episcopal church just across the street from the W...

Early this morning, "Hasidic reggae superstar" Matisyahu shocked the (Jewish) world with a tweet declaring, "At the break of day I look for you at sun...

Israel loves Joseph more than all his other sons, so he weaves for him a robe of fine wool. This and the spying don't help Joseph's case with his brothers. They hate him. They can't even talk to him without oozing contempt.

Hanukkah celebrations around the world: Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is celebrated Dec. 20-28, 2011. On the Jewish calendar, the Heb...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two Muslim men who say they were kicked off an airplane in May after the pilot objected to their presence are suing Delta Air...

Rob Bell, 41, the founding pastor of Mars Hill church in western Michigan, bid adieu to his congregation in a 5,000-word epistle about grace and peace...

OTTAWA, Ontario -- A Canadian Roman Catholic bishop charged with importing child pornography apologized in court Tuesday to the church and to victims ...

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is celebrated Dec. 20-28. Send your photos of menorah lighting, latke frying and dreidel spinning to religion...

...

A 6-foot, metal Hanukkah menorah was stolen from borough property in front of the Haddonfield Library overnight Tuesday. The theft was reported on ...

Pharaoh dreams. He stands by the Nile and watches seven fat, beautiful cows pasture together. Moments later, seven gaunt, ugly cows approach the others. They stare at each other. The skinny cows devour the fat cows. Pharaoh wakes up.

Pat Robertson has racked up countless on-air hours in his nearly half-century as a televangelist. Host of "The 700 Club," the premier program of the C...

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) – Southern Oregon University and Jackson County health officials are hoping to get money for a study of Ashland's low rate of chi...

FAIRFIELD, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio-born standup comedian who bills himself as "The Funny Indian" will find out whether people in his ancestral homeland ...

Judah approaches him -- God, Joseph, himself, all -- and begs: "Please! My master! I have something to say. Please listen. Please don't be mad, my master."