For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming ...

The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from other nations is not unusual.

Sean Strickland engaged in an unorthodox sparring match with a random fan. Donald Trump Says Americans May 'Give Up Your Religion' if Taxes Go Up Wall Street veteran analyst revamps stock market ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a blockbuster dispute over the nation’s first religious charter school.

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

A proposal by Republicans in Congress would allow President Donald Trump's administration to remove the tax-exempt status of ...

The group arrived in the U.S. on Monday, receiving an unusual exception to Trump's sweeping January executive order. Nine ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

In those days, snake-handling — or “taking up serpents,” as it’s referred to in Scripture — was not uncommon in the rural Appalachian Mountains, but the unusual religious practice had ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year ...

The Episcopal Church’s migration service said it will refuse the Trump administration's request to help resettle dozens of ...