Religion and Faith

Understanding King's complex legacy five decades later
Martin Luther King Jr. remains one of the most vivid symbols of hope for racial unity in America. But that's not the way he was viewed in the last years of his life.
Yousafzai visits her Pakistan hometown
Yousafzai and her family arrived in a helicopter provided by the Pakistani military, which took her to the town of Mingora in the Swat Valley from Islamabad. She had arrived in the capital before dawn on Thursday flanked by heavy security and plans to return to Britain on Monday.
Why is Easter so early this year?
Easter and Passover share a number of characteristics, so why do they sometimes occur weeks apart from each other?
Hot agnostic buns: A proposal for a pagan-Christian-secular Easter treat
Hot cross buns have been an Easter treat for centuries. But before that, pagans exchanged them as part of a spring ritual celebrating the four seasons or the phases of the moon. Can they morph again?
On Palm Sunday, pope urges youth to raise their voices
The pope's message comes on the heels of a meeting of young Catholics who told the Vatican they want a more transparent and authentic church, and a day after hundreds of thousands marched in youth-led rallies across the United States to demand greater gun control.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis was concerned that the Crosier plan could compromise the church's insurance coverage for abuse claims. But the archdiocese said that issue was addressed.
Anti-Islam speaker known to rural Minnesota heads for Twin Cities
John Guandolo is expected to speak April 8 at a Bloomington hotel. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as one of the nation's leading anti-Muslim extremists. He's drawn crowds in the past in far northern Minnesota.
America Abroad: 'Islam and the Cosmos'
Host Madeleine Brand looks back at the "Golden Age of Islam" and why the European Renaissance might not have happened without it. She explores how some Muslim countries are trying to again become world leaders in astronomy and space science.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is objecting to a religious order's bankruptcy reorganization plan that would give $25 million to 67 sexual abuse victims.
Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, gunned down in 1980, will become a saint
The Vatican announced that Romero, who was closely associated with liberation theology and was killed by a right-wing death squad, will be canonized along with Pope Paul VI.