Catholic and Protestant congregations prayed together for peace yesterday after IRA dissidents killed two British soldiers as they were receiving a pizza delivery - the first deadly attack on Northern Ireland security forces in 12 years.

ZIMBABWE'S President Robert Mugabe says the car crash that killed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife was "the hand of God".

Brain researchers trying to understand the neural basis of religious belief have concluded that the brain has no special region or network for this task. Rather, it depends on general networks that exist for other purposes.

A well-known prostitute who campaigned for the rights and dignity of sex workers was given an honored place of rest on Monday, in the same cemetery where Protestantism's John Calvin is buried, and some women activists criticized the decision.

An art exhibition opening in the Netherlands will allow people to call a telephone number designated for God - but they will have to leave a message.

Megachurches with large audiences have long had a heightened sense of security, but smaller churches often have no emergency plans, experts say.

US President Barack Obama has reversed a ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, in a sharp break from the Bush administration.

Billionaire Warren Buffett says the US economy could recover in five years, likening the current battle against prolonged recession as a Pearl Harbour-like situation during World War II.

America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a new survey indicates.

While lifting the Bush administration’s restrictions on federally financed human embryonic stem cell research, President Obama intends to avoid the thorniest question in the debate: whether taxpayer dollars should be used to experiment on embryos themselves.

After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, the death penalty may be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong but with money.

Another member of the heavy metal band Korn has overcome drug addiction by becoming a Christian.

Fifty-one-year-old Keith Melton, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant, was sitting with his wife Reka for Sunday services at First Baptist Church of Maryville when an unidentified man walked up to the front of the congregation and opened fire on Pastor Fred Winters.

In the US a man shot a pastor to death and injured others at Maryville First Baptist Church Sunday in Maryville, Illinois.