WARSAW, Poland : Baruch Milch was hiding from the Nazis in occupied Poland in the summer of 1943.

At a mass commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII, Pope Benedict XVI defended his predecessor during the Nazi reign and alluded to possible sainthood for the controversial religious ...

With a knife pressed to his throat, threatened with death, he did not renounce his Christian faith.

There is an awful lot of awful truth to Bill Maher's movie "Religulous." Some social conservatives take vicious Old Testament teachings and try to pass them off as part of a religion named after Jesus Christ.

Jews and Arabs clashed in the Israeli city of Acre, damaging cars and shops, after an Arab man was assaulted for driving during Yom Kippur.

Pope Benedict XVI gave a push to possible sainthood for Pope Pius XII as he defended the World War II pontiff Thursday from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust.