AP - Updated 11/18/2009 at 11:37 AM EST

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard said he will continue to hold weekly prayer meetings at his home, three years after he was ousted from the church he founded amid a scandal involving a male prostitute and drug use. Hagg...

AP - Updated 11/22/2009 at 7:18 AM EST

AMES, Iowa (Nov. 22) -- The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist." Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift down to a ...

AP - Updated 11/22/2009 at 1:14 AM EST

AMES, Iowa -The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist." Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying to make a good first impression before eyes drift down to a word many A...

Popeater - Updated 11/17/2009 at 11:22 PM EST

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AP - Updated 11/15/2009 at 4:36 AM EST

BEIJING -Followers of an unapproved church in Beijing were again forced by the government to find a new place to worship Sunday, a move one analyst suggested would be a test for President Barack Obama on religious freedom during his first visit to th...

AP - Updated 11/15/2009 at 2:53 PM EST

BELGRADE, Serbia -Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle, who called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism, died Sunday. He was 95. There have been reports of an...

AP - Updated 11/14/2009 at 7:17 AM EST

-It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard. On Tuesday night, after a series of clandestine meetings betwee...

AP - Updated 11/11/2009 at 11:07 AM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. -A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can't issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase "I Believe." U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie's ruling said the lic...

AP - Updated 11/10/2009 at 4:26 PM EST

MOSCOW -Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93. Ginzburg died late Sunday of cardiac arrest, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday. Ginzburg...