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The Franklin County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to remove prayer in response to a parent complaint filed with the state ACLU.

A Cuban Catholic Church official told the Ladies in White on Friday they are no longer a humanitarian group and that the government is unlikely to let them go to the Vatican even if Pope Benedict XVI grants them an audience, spokeswoman Berta Soler said.

Catawba County, N.C., officials have backed down after initially denying a request from marchers who want to use county facilities this weekend to stage a protest against a preacher's anti-gay sermon.

Thousands of pages of previously confidential records related to Franciscan clergymen accused of child sexual abuse have been posted online, three years after a Los Angeles judge ordered the documents released.

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A North Carolina pastor's sermon in which he called for gays and lesbians to be placed in a form of concentration camp has spurred a protest planned at the church this Sunday.

Cary native Ahmad Saad and two friends, Sasha Seymore and Dylan Simel plan to dribble from Asheville to Morehead City. By the time they reached Cary, the University of North Carolina students had traversed 270 miles and raised $4,500 for Middle East peace charities.

Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control coverage, filing federal lawsuits Monday on behalf of dioceses, schools and health care agencies that argued the requirement violates religious freedom.

A prominent activist group in the Roman Catholic Church's clergy-abuse crisis is fighting a Missouri judge's ruling to open more than two decades of correspondence with victims, lawyers, witnesses and journalists thought to be confidential.

As a little girl growing up in New York City, my mom took plenty of kidding about her name. She hated anything to do with sports, and whenever she dropped the ball or stumbled, her classmates made enormous fun of her, because she was called Grace.

Pope Benedict XVI has been left "hurt" by the arrest last week of his butler on charges of stealing papal documents, the pontiff's spokesman said Monday.

The Vatican said Friday that its police is holding a suspect in connection with the "illegal" possession of classified documents.

A Baptist church in Maiden violated federal tax law when its pastor intervened in the presidential election, the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group Americans United for Separation of Church and State said Wednesday.

All 6 Boston groups lose appeal to Vatican to reopen church buildings at closed parishes

Unless you want a fight to break out at a cocktail party or a family reunion, conventional wisdom has it, don't talk religion or politics.

A Catawba County pastor's sermon in which he called for gays and lesbians to be placed in a form of concentration camp has spurred a protest planned at the church this Sunday.

An eastern Kentucky Baptist pastor troubled by President Barack Obama's views on gay marriage violated federal law when he urged his followers to vote the president out of office in November, a Washington watchdog group said.

Sister Simone Campbell doesn't wear a habit.

With his Hollywood-star looks and a doctorate in moral theology, the Rev. Thomas Williams became a nationally known Catholic priest who spoke often on NBC and CBS as an advocate for the Vatican.