Armenian community of Calcutta, India to celebrate 300th anniversary of the Holy Church of Nazareth in November.

There exists much ethical controversy brought about by advances in biology and medicine and the relationship to religion. In a new essay in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Laurie Zoloth takes an approach to medical ethics that draws upon Jewish texts, traditions, and philosophy to show how acting to change the world is indicative of this faith tradition.

The home of Antonio Rosario Mennonna, the world's oldest bishop who turns 102 on May 27, has been burgled, his nephew told journalists in Italy Monday.

British Christians will be able to pray together wherever they are in future, by subscribing to a new mobile phone text alert service unveiled on Thursday.

A Baptist evangelist minister and critic of Islam was arrested Wednesday and charged with first degree attempted arson for allegedly burning tax records of his religious organization in an attempt to set his building on fire. Anis Shorrosh, 75, of Daphne, Alabama, was arrested after a fire was discovered Tuesday night in the trash room of the Loma Alta Towers condominium where he lives. 50 residents had to be evacuated from the building, but no one was hurt.

President Bush has proclaimed Thursday, May 1, 2008 as the 57th annual National Day of Prayer. All across the Nation there will be privately-sponsored prayer breakfasts, prayer walks and prayer gatherings at state capitol buildings, city halls, churches, schools and parks to celebrate National Day of Prayer 2008, which is becoming a world day of prayer.

Customized cell phones can express an owner’s religious devotion with religious ring tones, scripture messages and content filtering just to name a few options. Which religion has the best cell phone?

Addressing the sexual abuse in the church that caused so much damage to the Catholic Church in USA on Saturday Pope Benedict XVI called on the US clergy and nuns to work together to overcome the divisions in the church, stating that this is a time of "healing" and "purification."

On Friday evening Pope Benedict XVI visits the Park East Synagogue New York where he will gift a faithful copy of a page taken from an illuminated parchment in the Vatican Apostolic Library.

Pope Benedict XVI becomes the first Pope in the history of the Roman Catholic Church to meet with the victims of the sexual abuse and comfort them.

Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out. Two weeks before the beginning of his trip to the United States, his spokesperson Federico Lombardi S.J. said the pope would tackle the delicate issue of the pedophile priests, who have brought the Catholic church into disrepute since 2003.

Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In an exclusive statement to Wikinews, YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state why these particular accounts were suspended. Neither Christman nor Bunker received a notice or explanation from YouTube as to why their accounts were suspended.