Gender discrimination deadly for daughters in Asia | Religious tensions high in Nigeria after massacre | Europe roiled by fresh allegations of clerical child abuse | Body scanners scandalize some believers | Google Maps rolls out new feature for cyclists
In this Sunday's gospel we hear the story of a father who loved both his sons, even the prodigal one who "was lost and has been found." Daughters, however, don't fare nearly as well in Asia, according to a United Nations report ...
The land and its produce figure prominently in Israel's desert sojourn as described in this Sunday's reading from the Book of Joshua. Conflicts over land in Nigeria are partly blamed for religious tension that led to the March 7 massacre of close to 500 Christians at the hands of ethnic Fulani Muslims.
We are to be ambassadors for Christ, Saint Paul reminds readers in this Sunday's second reading. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi Tuesday acknowledged the "gravity of the crisis the church is undergoing" ...
This Sunday's psalm suggests we look upon the Lord so "that you may be radiant with joy and your faces may not blush for shame." Followers of Islamic law and Orthodox Jews are among those in the traveling public who not only blush at the thought of having to pass through a full-body scanner ...
In this Sunday's reading from 2 Corinthians, Saint Paul speaks of a new creation where "new things have come." Biking enthusiasts were celebrating Wednesday because of a new feature that comes from Google: Bicycle maps ...
The Fox television network was the subject of 48 percent of the indecency complaints filed with the Federal Communications Commission in 2009, followed by CBS (18.6 percent), ABC (18.4 percent), and NBC (14.6 percent).