Help for immigrants divides congregations
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He doesn't speak Spanish and has no idea what America should do about illegal immigration, but Rev. Larry Kreps knows he's now on a list somewhere of people willing to help illegal immigrants in a time of crisis.
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The sign outside Accotink Unitarian Universalist Church in Burke announces that it is a "liberal, welcoming religious community." For Rep. Tom Davis yesterday, it was more liberal than welcoming.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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Some are Catholics who see their church as stuck in the past. Others are believers who happen to be divorced, pregnant before marriage or gay. A few just can't find a priest when they need one.
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Dozens of activists on both sides of the illegal immigration debate faced off outside a church where an illegal immigrant is being sheltered with her U.S.-born infant son.
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Mexico's Grim Reaper grows more popular among Mexican immigrants but becomes a headache for the Catholic Church
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As a city councilman, Ahmed Aboutaleb, the son of a Moroccan clergyman, helped immigrants find jobs, put their toddlers in school to learn Dutch and doled out stern advice: integrate or leave.
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Focus groups are hardly new to American politics, but they have taken on new relevance in a country where the ideological divide has grown into a chasm.
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Eight congregations in the Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church voted overwhelming to break away, the Church announced on Sunday, in the latest sign of a rift in the U.S. denomination over its ordination of a gay bishop.
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COPENHAGEN -- The "Amens!" flew like popcorn in hot oil as 120 Christian worshipers clapped and danced and praised Jesus as if He'd just walked into the room. In a country where about 2 percent of the population attend  church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a...
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The U.S. Episcopal Church is in the middle of a wrenching debate that could end with its departure from the worldwide Anglican Communion over disagreements about gay clergy and same-sex unions.
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PHOENIX, Arizona  - In recent weeks the battle lines in a heated debate in the United States over illegal immigration have been drawn across the sidewalk outside an Arizona furniture store.
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If it wasn't for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it.
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By Joe Rodriguez, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 7--Many Wichita-area religious leaders are stepping up their  campaign to share their casino opposition with their congregations and the  community.
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As an economic slowdown and the subprime mortgage crisis deepen across the United States, Hispanic immigrants are increasingly in danger of losing their jobs and their homes.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania -- Seven conservative Anglican leaders refused to take Holy Communion with the head of the US branch of the church, who supports ordaining gays and blessing same-sex unions, as the fellowship struggles to avert a split.
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(CSM) - If Americans think they live in a politically divided nation, they should consider Israel. It&#39;s not a 50-50 split that&#39;s rending the country, but a virulent verbal attack from the religious right.