Religious Texts

Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest

2013-05-10 03:24:00

JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...

An artisanal Bible: A handwritten copy, four years in the making

2013-05-06 08:01:00

A man in upstate New York has just about finished a task that was common enough until the invention of the printing press: Over the past four years, he has copied the King James Bible by hand, the Associated Press reports. Phillip Patterson, a 63-year-...

North Caucasus to Boston: Rise and fall of the Tsarnaev brothers

2013-04-28 07:00:00

Anzor Tsarnaev was tough, a championship boxer back home, and he wanted his oldest boy to be tough too. Rain or shine, like a scene from "Rocky," the wiry Chechen immigrant would ride his bicycle as his son Tamerlan jogged to a Boston-area boxing gym,...

Mark Burnett and Roma Downey put faith in 'The Bible' for History

2013-03-03 07:00:00

Mark Burnett, one of the most prolific reality-show producers on television, is going from scorched earth to burning bush. The former military paratrooper who made his name in Hollywood with back-biting, take-no-prisoners programs such as "Survivor,"...

Scott Sassa out at Hearst Entertainment

2013-03-14 12:47:00

Scott Sassa has resigned as president of entertainment and syndication of Hearst Corp. Sassa's resignation was confirmed Thursday after the New York Post published a story saying Sassa had been cavorting with strippers and one -- in partnership with her...

The Christian case for gay marriage

2012-12-02 00:00:00

Despite the increasing number of those who hold other faiths or no faith, Christians still wield substantial influence on our nation's cultural and ethical norms. After all, 73% of Americans still identify as Christian, according to a 2012 Pew Forum...

Pakistani court dismisses blasphemy case against Christian girl

2012-11-20 07:21:00

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— A Pakistani court on Tuesday dismissed charges against a Christian girl accused of desecrating the Koran, ending a case that had cast a spotlight on the country’s controversial blasphemy law and renewed questions about the...

Letters: God and gays

2012-12-19 00:00:00

Re "The Bible on gays," Postscript, Dec. 15 C.S. Pearce rightly mocks some of the nonsense in Leviticus. It does not support her claim that the Bible may not be as virulently anti-gay as it seems, but it does bring into question why anyone should care....

Herman Wouk, a novel force

2012-12-19 00:00:00

The year Herman Wouk was born, Woodrow Wilson was in his first term in the White House, the Lusitania's sinking was on the front page and "The Birth of a Nation" was playing in silent movie theaters. In the 97 years since, with such books as "The Caine...

What the Bible doesn't say about gays

2012-12-15 00:00:00

Responding to C.S. Pearce's Dec. 2 Op-Ed article, "The Christian case for gay marriage," reader Tony Hillbruner of San Gabriel wrote: "The Bible does not discuss gay marriage, but it condemns homosexual activity. In Romans 1:27, 'men ... were inflamed...

Pakistani judge grants bail to Christian girl charged with blasphemy

2012-09-07 05:33:33

Pakistan president orders probe into Christian girl's blasphemy case

2012-08-20 04:33:16

Students from Pilgrim Lutheran School in Chicago hold Bibles while listening to community members and pastors read passages from the Bible.

2012-11-19 00:00:00

A Koran is held up during a protest last month in Berlin against a right-wing anti-Muslim group.

2012-08-31 14:00:00

Palestinian girls attend a class on how to read the Koran, Islam's holy book, at a camp in a local mosque in Gaza City.

2012-06-11 07:40:00