The head of a Katrina charity established by former Presidents Bush and Clinton resigned Friday under duress, a day after the exodus of seven members of one of its committees. Complete Story
Roman Catholic leaders Wednesday criticized what they called the militarization of Venezuelan society and the persecution of government opponents.
The Philippines' influential Roman Catholic bishops on Monday refused to join calls to support a new impeachment bid against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane has reached agreements with two more insurance carriers on payments to cover sexual abuse claims as the diocese's bankruptcy case heads into mediation.
A Roman Catholic bishop criticized for not immediately reporting a priest for sexually abusing three boys is defending his handling of the matter and said he was "dismayed" to learn the priest had fled to Mexico.
A priest who admitted sexually abusing a 12-year-old altar boy fled to Mexico after his bishop failed to immediately report the confession to authorities, a law enforcement official said.
The Roman Catholic dioceses of Los Angeles and Orange County have backed away from a promise to conduct fingerprint background checks on anyone working with children, saying they don't want to lose volunteers who are illegal immigrants.
A Denver businessman and elder with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) who promised to donate a record $150 million to the church owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to creditors and has had his assets frozen, according to public records reviewed by The Denver Post.
Thirteen people who say they were abused by Roman Catholic priests several years ago have filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
A man accused of killing his wife and opening fire inside a church, killing four of her relatives, was indicted murder charges, and prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that individual parishes of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane are not owned by the bishop and thus cannot be sold by him to pay victims of clergy sex abuse.
Mexico's Roman Catholic Church on Monday urged voters to participate in the July 2 presidential election and asked the candidates to run clean campaigns.
A New York aid group formed in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will help rebuild a southern Indiana church destroyed last year by a deadly tornado.
Edward Davis Jr. simply wanted to hold a memorial service in his church for his son, who was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb in late April.
Chinese authorities detained 28 Christians in a raid on an unauthorized church service at a private home, an overseas monitoring group said Friday.
Many of the records in lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by priests from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will remain secret before trial, a judge has ruled.
Two women who claim they were sexually abused by a Roman Catholic nun filed lawsuits Tuesday alleging a religious order failed to protect them.
Twenty-three people who claim they were molested by a Roman Catholic priest decades ago waited too long to sue the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, a judge has ruled.
Adults who accuse priests of abusing them when they were children must follow time limits for filing lawsuits despite the trauma of sexual abuse possibly causing delays in reporting the event, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
A portion of a floor in a storefront church collapsed Thursday night, sending some of the 30 people attending a meeting plummeting into the basement.
On the altar of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Cardinal Sean O'Malley prostrated himself alongside two dozen bishops and priests, praying that God would forgive the damage done by the Roman Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal.
The Catholic Diocese of Spokane is selling its bishop's office building — and hopes to sell all of its other property — to raise money to pay victims of clergy sex abuse.
The driver of a minivan plowed into a crowd of children gathered at an inflated "Moon Walk" attraction, injuring at least nine people before fleeing the scene, police said Monday.
A man gunned down four of his in-laws during a morning church service Sunday, abducted his wife and then shot her to death before he was captured nearby, authorities said.
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia said Friday it would move toward reconciling with the Moscow-based parent church from which it split after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.