Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini. There is something lyrically beautiful and majestically timeless about the Latin rendering of this supreme moment of joy pronounced on Palm Sunday 2000 years ago in Jerusalem as Jesus entered the city.

The pastor of Barack Obama Rev. Jeremiah Wright has earlier made some controversial comments as a preacher that may come to create some difficulties for Obama during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Race.

A KEY meeting between Catholic and Armenian Orthodox leaders has raised hopes of the Churches resolving the issues that have divided them for a millennia and a half, according to a leading Christian charity.

What happened to the Ark of The Covenant remains one of the biggest miseries of religion.

An American boy (Jonathan McCullum) travels to Egypt as an exchange student and lives with a Coptic family. He claims that the Coptic family fasted so often and so intently that they almost killed him. He lost about fifty pounds.

According to Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey on religion in the U.S. the Catholic share of the U.S. adult population has held fairly steady in recent decades.

"Immigrant" youths are torching cars and schools. An elementary school was torched in the violence.

Is nanotechnology morally acceptable? For a significant percentage of Americans, the answer is no, according to a recent survey of Americans' attitudes about the science of the very small.

February 18 is Presidents Day in the United States. It's a day Americans have set aside to honor past presidents and to examine their legacy and significance. One of the most intriguing aspects of this group of men is the degree to which religion has played a role in their leadership. VOA's Adam Phillips has more.

In response to the arrest on Tuesday of three people who allegedly were planning to kill the artist who drew the cartoon, Kurt Westergaard. five major newspapers in Denmark have reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.

There has been a strong reaction in the media and elsewhere to the Archbishop of Canterbury's remarks of yesterday on civil and religious law. Let's see what Archbishop Rowan Williams has actually said.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that UK law needs to continue to find accommodation with religious legal codes such as the Islamic system of Sharia if community cohesion and development are to be achieved.