SIOUX FALLS | In the living room of a sprawling house on the edge of Sioux Falls, Mendel Alperowitz is winding a leather strap around the arm …
Several dozen tradition-minded Roman Catholic theologians, priests and academics have formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy with h…
Our Lady of Angels Church has survived several major earthquakes, but Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 shake proved to be the final death knell for the…
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — Eleven nuns take the stage wearing traditional black-and white habits but are anything but old school as they belt out songs to the ringing of electric guitar and a rock 'n' roll beat.
Burlington, Iowa | With a nose ring and tattooed arms, Elizabeth Bell doesn't look like your typical pastor.
Greg Wall remembers the exact time a tornado plowed through Muscatine, causing a 75-foot tall chimney to crash into the roof of Wesley United …
The Roman Catholic cathedral in Kosovo's capital has been consecrated to the saint formerly known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Debris and muck were all that remained where homes once stood, tens of thousands spent the night in shelters, and others would weather another…
Even as the Islamic State group's rule is being torn down in Iraq, the seeds are there for it — or a successor extremist group — to rise again…
Catholic authorities in Myanmar and the Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis will visit Myanmar and Bangladesh starting at the end of November.
There's a sign-up sheet in the basement of the West Des Moines Methodist Church that looks like the Container Store let loose on a poster boar…
For Diane Gartner Hillman, the new reality of being Jewish in Charlottesville sank in when she had to leave Congregation Beth Israel through t…
As 50 boats head down the Louisiana bayou, heavy bells set one above the other clang out from the first boat, incense wafts from the second, a…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. | A coalition of nearly two dozen states led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is stepping into a dispute in northwestern…
Though there's mold growing on the walls, peeling paint on the ceiling and cobwebs dusting the pews, the Mount Zion Baptist Church has what so…
