Workers still flood Big Easy

By BRUCE NOLAN | May 17, 2012 - 5:55pm

Hours before the volunteers and staff of Project Homecoming were to celebrate the program’s fifth anniversary at a party in the Lakeview neighborhood, work proceeded as usual, with volunteers in paint-spattered work clothes laboring on three new homes rising on once-vacant lots in Gentilly, a hurricane-
ravaged neighborhood.

Woman leaves old order for new life

By KATHY HANKS | May 10, 2012 - 6:15pm

HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Esther Miller found a calling in her strong hands, bringing relief to the aching muscles of her clients at Anointed Massage.

Lawsuit pits freedom against faith

By Lisa Cornwell | May 3, 2012 - 7:40pm

CINCINNATI – Age 30 and single, Christa Dias decided to have a baby by artificial insemination.

Minority faiths face attacks

By Kathy Gannon | April 26, 2012 - 6:41pm

LAHORE, Pakistan – It was barely 4 a.m. when 19-year-old Rinkal Kumari disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province.

Holocaust memories: ‘Crowded ... with fear’

The Associated Press | April 19, 2012 - 5:04pm

PHOENIX –
Helen Handler climbed the steps carefully, unsure what might happen next.

Megachurch requires megaeffort to run

By Lucas L. Johnson Ii | April 12, 2012 - 7:42pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On about any Sunday, as many as 10,000 people might fill the pews of The Potter’s House, Bishop T.D. Jakes’ Dallas-area megachurch.

Fortune leaves homelessness behind

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. | April 6, 2012 - 12:29am

ATLANTA – James Fortune used to watch his children sleep in the bathtub before he lay beside his pregnant wife at night in a motel, wondering how he was going to provide for his family the next day.

Family feud roils ministry

By Gillian Flaccus | March 29, 2012 - 7:20pm

COSTA MESA, Calif. – Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch have faced plenty of mountains building their religious broadcast empire – among them allegations of a homosexual tryst and a prolonged battle with the Federal Communications Commission – but the most recent attack on the founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network comes from their own flesh and blood.

Lent finds broader appeal

By Jeff Brumley | March 22, 2012 - 5:20pm

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At almost 7 feet tall, the Rev. Clifford Johnson admits he likes to eat, a lot.Except now.

Ceremony starts church’s project

From Staff Reports | March 22, 2012 - 5:17pm

TARBORO – Word of Life International Church broke ground Sunday for the first phase of a building project on its new campus off McNair Road.

Tourists’ welcome at churches wears thin

By Meghan Barr | March 15, 2012 - 7:29pm

NEW YORK – The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists – most of whom arrived late, a sea of white faces with guidebooks in hand.

Dalai Lama's homeland faces crackdown

By Gillian Wong | March 8, 2012 - 8:56pm

ABA, China –
China’s stifling lockdown of this Tibetan monastery town has not only been about patrolling its sleepy streets, but also policing the minds of a community at the center of self-
immolation protests against Chinese rule.

Colleges work to balance faith, rights

By Jay Lindsay | March 1, 2012 - 2:27pm

Dozens of colleges have scrutinized how on-campus Christian groups operate after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed a law school to deny funding to a Christian group that would not admit gays.

Baptists consider what is in a name

By Travis Loller | February 23, 2012 - 5:55pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Some Southern Baptists worry that their denomination’s name still carries the stigma of a 19th century split with Northern Baptists over slavery.

Monks find way to endure

By Bruce Smith | February 16, 2012 - 6:59pm

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – Mushrooms have turned out to be the financial salvation of a Roman Catholic abbey five years after its brothers were criticized by a well-known animal rights group.

Humanists fight for Army's recognition

By Tom Breen | February 9, 2012 - 7:32pm

RALEIGH – Soldiers who don’t believe in God can go to war with “Atheist” stamped on their dog tags, but humanists and others with various secular beliefs still officially are invisible in the Army.

Church program melds fitness, faith

By TONI LEPESKA | February 2, 2012 - 8:53pm

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. – For Miriam Maslowski, the Bible isn’t just for feeding souls – it’s the go-to book on how to feed a body.

Seminary by day, heavy metal by night

By Tim Townsend | January 26, 2012 - 7:20pm

CLAYTON, Mo. – Concordia Seminary in suburban St.

East End MBC recognizes student

From Staff Reports | January 26, 2012 - 7:19pm

East End Missionary Baptist Church has presented an Edgecombe Community College freshman the second grant from the congregation’s scholarship foundation.

Opposing views split Israeli Jews

By ETHAN BRONNER
and ISABEL KERSHNER | January 19, 2012 - 7:46pm

JERUSALEM – A few months ago, the Israeli Health Ministry awarded Channa Maayan, a pediatrics professor at Hebrew University, a prize for a book she had co-written on hereditary diseases common among Jews.

Haredim thrive after hard past

By ETHAN BRONNER
and ISABEL KERSHNER | January 19, 2012 - 7:45pm

JERUSALEM – As
a group, the ultra-
Orthodox are, at best, ambivalent about the Israeli state, which they consider insufficiently religious and premature in its founding because the Messiah has not yet arrived.

Concert shares spirituals' impact

By Laura McFarland | January 12, 2012 - 8:05pm

The songs were born under oppression, but they endured.

Faith strengthens military marriages

By Kristin M. Hall | January 5, 2012 - 5:52pm

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – With husbands deployed or preparing to leave for war, some young wives at adjacent Fort Campbell, Ky., have spent much of their marriages so far alone.

Catholic churches store sacred items for future reuse

By CRAIG SMITH | December 29, 2011 - 9:24pm

PITTSBURGH – As a seminarian, the Rev. Joseph McCaffrey knelt before a tabernacle in the chapel at Mercy Hospital, where his mother was being treated for a brain tumor, and prayed for her recovery.

At church, testaments meet technology

By Heidi Hagemeier | December 22, 2011 - 6:11pm

BEND, Ore. –
 When the Rev. Phil Kooistra and his wife felt called to launch a church in Bend, they planted the technological seeds months before loading a moving truck.