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Pope Benedict XVI marked Christmas Eve with Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and a pressing question: Will people find room in their hectic, technology-driven lives for children, the poor and God?...

President Obama's campaign is trying to tie Republican rival Mitt Romney to embattled candidate's comments about rape. In a new video, the Obama campaign asks, "Mitt Romney's solution to extremism against women? Promote the extremists."

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Wednesday that he is standing by his statement that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended." He says some people have twisted the meaning of his comment....

HIV is a curse from God. That's what Patricia Sawo used to tell others as a church leader in Kitale, Kenya.

According to a new Gallup poll, the number of Americans who believe humans evolved without the involvement of a higher power has risen.

The basic text used for Alcoholics Anonymous programs, known as "The Big Book," initially used stronger religious language but was reduced to appeal to a wider audience, The Washington Post is reporting.

God did not create the universe and the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

A math teacher was fired from an Iowa Catholic school because she joined an atheist website and noted online that she didn't believe in God. ...

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected arguments by Sacramento atheist ...

The sexual abuse of children is not just a "heinous crime" but a "grave sin" that offends God and wounds human dignity, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday after a two-day meeting with Irish Catholic bishops at the Vatican.