As clergy serving different religious communities in Greater Boston, we are shocked and saddened by the Patriots' Day attacks on our fellow citizens, our city and our freedom.

When we start to really pray together with people of different religions we will lose our fears of each other and get to know and understand each other and grow in friendship.

By Angel Krasimirov SOFIA, April 5 (Reuters) - Bulgarians set aside religious and political differences on Friday at the start of thre...

In accepting the papacy, Pope Francis now is shrouded in the protection of the church's political vestments. As representatives of an interreligious university, we trust that Pope Francis will wisely recognize the transparency of his new clothes and hew to the naked simplicity of his namesake's example.

There is one ritual, one sacred physical activity that I still miss from my inherited faith, and it surprises the hell out of me: Head bowed, eyes closed and knees pressed into the God's holy ground, so that I can surrender myself in prayer physically, mentally and soulfully.

Everyone has only one guardian angel and this angel is with them from before their birth until after they die. This angel never ever leaves them, not even for one moment.

By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) At a time when the ideals of compromise and collegiality seem like a distant dream in the ...

In this light all barriers melt and we remember our essential interconnectedness. In this light we notice that there is no such thing as the Other.

Although we were unable to provide safety and peace for the victims of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we can pray that their souls find shelter under G-d's mighty wings.

Accepting gratitude, the thanks of someone else, even a stranger, lights us up -- it makes us feel good. It helps us, even for a second, to see the light and love that is within us. When we give thanks, we open up spiritually.

Amid the noise and increasing demands of our daily life, it is more and more important for many of us to find a way to reach an inner quiet, a place of rest and refuge.

To pray for peace is not to seek a healing that is contrary to our deepest instinct. It is rather, as Mahatma Gandhi said, to get in touch with "the intense longings of the human heart."

Until we come back into relationship, until we begin to learn the wisdom at the heart of one another's traditions, we will be less likely to work for peace.

This week, more than 300 religious leaders -- cardinals, bishops, metropolitans, patriarchs, rabbis, imams, sheikhs, monks and nuns -- met in Barcelona to preach a message of peace.

Here are some things I have learned/am learning about praying/being a prayer.