Plus: Who owns Jesus, and a Christian band eschews the label

One detained Filipino still waiting for employer's guarantee

Jailers reportedly beating pastor for witnessing.

Plus: Is the Scandal of the Evangelical Mind over? Is it time to masculinize church vestments? Is the Antichrist here? and other topics

Evangelical Protestants are caught between freedom in Christ and sacred observance.

The season can be a beautiful and deeply moving experience of walking with Jesus to the cross.

California churches crucial in Prop. 22 debate.

House of Representatives Committee holding hearings on subject Thursday

Plus: School prayer, God on TV, Michael English falls again, and other news stories from the world's media sources.

National Council of Churches in India will also work against strengthening of caste system.

We must prepare for the worst, he says of directionless peace talks.

Plus: Canada's National Post laments anti-Christian bigotry, Catholics and Protestants unite for Ash Wednesday services, and other religion news stories.

Fundamentalist school finds itself thrust into Republican presidential debate.

Three months after controversy began, lots of partisan sniping but still no chaplain vote in U.S. House.

William Jennings Bryan won the battle but lost the war against teaching evolution in the schools.

>Harry Emerson Fosdick, one of the century's most controversial Christians, devoted much of his life to fighting fundamentalism

Ron Sider's timely proposals

Why does this man irritate so many people?

Plus: Slate analyzes Chuck Colson but doesn't understand Protestant Christianity, creationism's most famous enemy may be helping the cause, Lent gets easier, and other topics.

Judge refuses bail during 'religious slander' investigation

Married Anglican priests now live together in Maryland

Plus: Democrats using Bob Jones University as campaign tool, Seventh-Day Adventists sue for their name, Thomas Nelson's secret book, and other news stories from around the world.

Church's 'children' made mistakes, but the church is sacred, says John Paul II

Supreme Court scheduled to hear case in April

What Christian film critics are saying about the weekend's top ten.

Plus: Charges dropped against priest in Egypt riots, Pope accused of 'watering down' apology, and black churches wake up to AIDS crisis.

Catholic, Orthodox, and Lutheran heads apologize for egoism and indifference.

More expulsions expected as efforts continue to stop 'illegal' religious activity

Economic situation 'has gone from precarious to catastrophic' after flooding

A day of rest is God's gift to us. Part 12

A day of rest is God's gift to us. Part

Plus: Indiana okays the Ten Commandments, Florida nixes vouchers, the Vatican faces an identity crisis, and other stories from the world's media.

Government confiscating Turkmen, Russian Scriptures

3,200-mile walk a holy crusade for campaign finance reform

Plus: Taco Bell's delicious Lent, Bob Jones University reposts 'cult' statement, and other Christian news from the world's media.

Pope John Paul II's apology was unprecedented, but not entirely unique.

A look at the Web's best sites about Patrick, one of the world's most famous missionaries

'This question of meddling or not meddling in the peace process is not a question that concerns the pilgrimage of the Holy Father,' says Archbishop Michel Sabbah.

Looking beyond naivete and cynicism about peacemaking at Wheaton's Christianity and Violence conference.

Plus: Quoting the Bible in court is okay in Ohio (but not Georgia), the minuses of plus signs in Israel, Hollywood slips one by the protesters, and other news stories from the mainstream press.

We must halt America's gun 'scourge,' says general secretary

Father Sava Janjic is pessimistic about the future

How lawn ornaments became 'a way to glorify God.'

Librarian-researcher claims American Library Association thwarted study

What Christian movie critics are saying about Best Picture nominations and other top films of 1999.

Freeman Dyson, midwife of Quantum Electrodynamics, futurist, and popularizer of science, honored for work on responsible science.

Plus: The pope goes to Israel, evangelicals run out of Mexican village, and Christian alt-rocker Gene Eugene dies

Presbyterian Church in Taiwan in forefront of campaign for Taiwan's independence

Chinese church leader, oldest Roman Catholic cardinal, dies at age 98

Orissa ordering official permission, fees to change religion

Land redistribution must be done in a systematic, just and transparent manner

Plus: Supreme Court OKs mandatory student fees, Texas church is site of shooting, and the U.K. National Gallery looks at Jesus.

Mass suicides, like last week's in Uganda, may be a newer tactic, but the temptation to predict, even force, the coming of kingdom bliss is not.

Samaritan's Purse hit for fourth time, two killed in Voice of the Martyrs bombing

Kiss of ground symbolic as John Paul II calls for Palestinian homeland

Catholic Church 'deeply saddened by anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians.'

Church-state issues not addressed in ruling

Finding the most important story in headlines' sum

Plus: The Lord's Prayer causes a stir in Canada and Israel, and Gary Bauer, heroic martyr.

Amended bill defines 'marriage' as heterosexual

Christians have a responsibility to understand our Muslim neighbors and their beliefs

Plus: New House chaplain says 'move on,' Canada's Uniting Church moves against official Lord's Prayer, and sports collides with religion.

President of NAE embraces new strategy.

100,000 hear message by Sea of Galilee

Many Muslims don't understand Christianity—especially the idea of salvation by grace through faith.

Plus: Dignified anger and judgment at Anglican meeting, Messianic Muslims, and The Cider House Doesn't Rule.

What Christian movie reviewers are saying about the week's top films.

World Evangelical Fellowship focuses on broad demands of Great Commission.