Supreme Court to revisit church-state separation

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can...

Westboro Baptist Church defector struggles with her past

TOPEKA, Kan. — The house was empty, just as Libby Phelps had planned. Slipping inside that afternoon four years ago, ...

Supreme Court weighing public school graduation in a church

WASHINGTON — Can a public high school hold its graduation ceremony in a local church?

After death, a church leader's sordid side revealed

By the time the letter arrived, the grass on Benjamin Hawkes' grave had grown thick. Historians had chronicled how he transformed the Los...

True Religion board accepts $835-million takeover bid

True Religion Apparel Inc., the Southern California purveyor of pricey designer denim, may have gotten too small for its britches.

Christian metal guitarist allegedly sought to kill wife

SAN DIEGO — Tim Lambesis has spent the last 13 years fronting As I Lay Dying, a San Diego-...

Pakistan bombing again targets Islamist party

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second day in a row, a bomb blast killed and maimed participants at a campaign rally being held by one...

Uganda priest ostracized for publicizing sexual abuse

KAMPALA, Uganda — He is a celebrity across eastern and central Africa, a gospel music star known to many as the "Dancing Priest."...

Local, federal agencies investigate Leimert Park church fire

A special task force of fire, police and federal agencies is investigating a church fire that erupted early Friday at a Leimert Park church.

Cardinal Mahony used cemetery money to pay sex abuse settlement

Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of...

L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases from authorities

Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor plotted to conceal child...

Judge orders archdiocese to restore names in abuse files

Church leaders who mishandled child sex abuse allegations will be named in a 30,000-page cache of internal Archdiocese of Los Angeles...

Kuang-hsun Ting dies at 97; bishop led Protestant church in China

Bishop Kuang-hsun Ting, who was one of the most influential Christian figures in China as the longtime leader of the country's government-...

Pope Shenouda III dies at 88; leader of Coptic Orthodox Church

Silicon Valley gives conservative Christians a boost

Silicon Valley, the politically liberal technology hub, is an unlikely incubator of conservative Christian activism.

David Martinez dies at 67; pastor's church helped gang members and addicts

David Martinez, pastor of Victory Outreach Church of the San Fernando Valley, whose...

James Kavanaugh dies at 81; former Catholic priest wrote book calling for church reform

James Kavanaugh, a former Catholic priest who came to fame in 1967 with his controversial bestseller calling for reform in the church and...

Father Ladislas K. Parker dies at 94; Catholic priest fled communist Hungary in 1950

Father Ladislas K. Parker, a Catholic priest whose harrowing escape from communist Hungary in 1950 led him to Orange County and the founding...

Oral Roberts dies at 91; televangelist was pioneering preacher of the 'prosperity gospel'

Oral Roberts, a dirt-poor Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most...

Aceh's morality police on the prowl for violators

The young couple are totally busted. They huddle at a beach-side park, near signs forbidding teens from sitting too close. He has his arm...