Minority Islamic sect under fire in Indonesia
MANISLOR, Indonesia (AP) -- A minority Islamic sect told followers Friday to prepare for war after rock-throwing mobs attacked one of their mosques in central Indonesia, calling its members heretics....
Muslim court clause brings spotlight in Kenya vote
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A draft constitution that Kenya votes on next week guarantees women the same rights as men - unless a judge in a Muslim family court decrees otherwise....
Churchill's choppers sold at auction in England
LONDON (AP) -- A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.)...
Rise of independent groups influencing Judaism
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- They gather blocks from Harvard Square to greet the Sabbath with communal prayer, their eyes winced closed, hands clapping as they sing in fervent Hebrew. The group worships in the Jewish Orthodox tradition, but it's not traditional....
Official: Ukraine church blast kills 1, wounds 8
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- A bomb blast Wednesday at a southern Orthodox church in Ukraine has killed one person and wounded eight, officials said...
Religion News in Brief
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The highest court in the United Methodist Church will review its 2005 ruling that allowed a clergyman to bar a noncelibate gay man from joining a congregation....
Vatican reverses itself, painting not a Caravaggio
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican's top art historian on Monday shot down a report in its own newspaper that suggested a recently discovered painting was a Caravaggio....
Gay Lutheran pastors to join church roster
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in the nation's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination....
Pope grants broad powers to Legionaries delegate
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The pope has granted broad powers to the archbishop he selected to overhaul the Legionaries of Christ following revelations that the order's founder led a double life....
