Religion and Faith

Muslim leaders decry rejection of cemetery
In August last year, the Castle Rock Township board rejected an application from the land owner for a Muslim cemetery.
Vatican says rumors about pope's health are an attempt to undermine him
The doctor named in the Italian reports is Takanori Fukushima, a neurosurgeon who lives in North Carolina. He denies the claims.
The city councils of Cambridge and Austin have unanimously passed resolutions that call for protecting police under hate crime laws.
The Rev. Antonio Marfori says there's no truth in a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing a teenage boy nearly four decades ago.
Planned Parenthood will no longer accept reimbursement for fetal tissue
President Cecile Richards said accusations that the women's health group illegally profits from tissue provided to researchers has "nothing to do with our fetal tissue donation compliance process."
Twin Cities Catholics weigh in on new archbishop
About 150 Catholics gathered in St. Paul Monday to tell Archbishop Bernard Hebda what they'd like to see in a new archbishop of the Twin Cities archdiocese.
Vatican fires priest after he comes out as gay ahead of bishops' meeting
Monsignor Kryztof Charamsa appeared at a news conference with his partner. In an interview he called the Church's stance on homosexuality "backwards."
Vatican says pope's visit with Davis not a form of support
On Wednesday, Davis and her legal team said that the meeting had been brief, and that the pope had thanked Davis for her courage and told her, "Stay strong."