As the U.S. Catholic bishops gather in Baltimore to discuss controversial issues such as clerical sexual abuse and racism, some people are... Read More

Pope Francis has ordered the Catholic Bishops of the United States to refrain from voting on a code of conduct and a lay-led oversight body... Read More

Catholic leaders, from parish priests to the pope, are bombarded with opinions on whether they should or should not speak out on issues of... Read More

The one thing the bishops of the American Catholic Church had to do this week at their biennial gathering was to make it clear to a watching... Read More

There is a history of evangelical interpretation of the Book of Revelation. It lacks one thing and in its place has used flat-footed literal... Read More

At the Church of Christ in Nigeria congregation, Sunday morning worship opens with the din of a military-style drumroll. Inside a long,... Read More

When a gunman slaughtered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Shabbat morning last month, American Jews were left with a jumble of... Read More

Sir Roger Scruton, the eminent British scholar, has faced a barrage of criticism ever since he took an advisory position in the Ministry of... Read More

For centuries, a small community of fair-skinned, blue-eyed people known as the Kalasha have inhabited a remote valley in northwest Pakistan,... Read More

By the time Chinese guards began torturing Kayrat Samarkand inside a re-education camp last spring, he says his life had prepared him for... Read More

On 31 October, Pakistan's supreme court acquitted Asia Bibi, a 54-year-old Christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy.... Read More

When released, she found that mobs were baying for her blood throughout Pakistan—and, most surprisingly, that the West held out no firm... Read More