No Line On The Horizon, the latest album from Irish rock band U2, has finally hit music stores in North America after its worldwide debut Friday in Ireland.

The funeral of a teenage girl will finally be held this month 700 years after her decapitated body was buried in unconsecrated ground outside an English church in a gruesome medieval ritual.

The Compass Direct News agency is reporting that the Hindu nationalist government in the southern state of Karnataka is planning to introduce the kind of “anti-conversion” law that has provided the pretext for anti-Christian violence in other states.

Rapper Snoop Dogg surprised fans and reporters alike this weekend by revealing he has joined the Nation of Islam.

One-fifth of Londoners reject Darwin's theory of evolution and instead think human beings were created by God over the last 10,000 years, a survey said.

New Zealand has granted asylum to an Iranian convert to Christianity, holding that Ali Panah would likely face persecution for his religious beliefs if forced to return to Iran.

James Dobson, the influential evangelical leader of the Christian ministry Focus on the Family, has stepped down as board chairman, he announced Friday.

The government of India’s Orissa state says it will not give permission for the Christian community in Batticola to rebuild a destroyed church because they do not hold the deed of ownership to the land.

The Malaysian government will issue a new decree restoring a ban on Christian publications using the word "Allah" to refer to God.

The New York Times ponders a study of religion in Scandinavia which found unbelievers but not necessarily atheists.

Israel's youngest couple ever to apply for a divorce was granted one by the Jerusalem Rabbinic Court this week.

Governments that receive donations of Ten Commandments displays and other monuments for public parks are not compelled to take everything they are offered, a unanimous US Supreme Court has ruled.

The Malaysian government has softened an earlier ban on the use of the word "Allah" by Christian publications to refer to God and is allowing them to use it as long as they specify the material is not for Muslims.

Amid the Sichuan earthquake and a crumbling economy, observers are watching for signs of whether Chinese authorities will view Christian groups as a threat or a stabilizing influence.