Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has issued a lengthy public apology for his racially charged comments about the Trayvon Martin case, and said he has sent a personal letter to President Obama seeking forgiveness.

Recently, Ethan Wolfe, a six year-old Phoenix boy heard that people in Haiti had to drink “dirty water” every day and asked his family what they could do about it.

Citing his Christian faith, President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage in an interview with ABC news on Wednesday.

Proponents of euthanasia and aborting chronically ill fetuses use the same arguments that were once used by the Nazis to promote their eugenics program of mass extermination, according to the Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper.

The sign outside the polling station at Devon Park United Methodist Church exemplified this state’s struggle with a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

After almost a year as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, which The New York Times called “one of the most reviled congregations in the country,” the Rev. Patrick Conroy was back in Portland, Ore., for a few days to meet with his Jesuit counterparts.

Following Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a third term as President of Russia at the Kremlin on 7 May, Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church held a prayer service for his health and successful rule and praised him as Russia’s legitimate leader.

An air of excitement, renewal and optimism filled the campus of a Liberian Bible school on Easter Sunday as students, staff and local officials celebrated both the resurrection of Christ and the revival of a campus radio station that began test broadcasts last November, writes Harold Goerzen for HCJB Global radio broadcasting ministry.

Prominent human rights advocate and attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who represents imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, has reportedly been sentenced to nine years in jail for allegedly “acting against national security” in Iran.

A Muslim lawyer has called for the introduction of sharia courts in Russia, threatening a “bloodbath” if the demand is opposed, reports the UK-based Barnabas Fund .