The first rabbi invited to address the Vatican’s annual synod of bishops criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.

While France is a model for the centralized state, Alsace-Moselle is different, especially on the question of politics and religion.

Spurning the secular state schools, some Muslim students have found religious accommodation at private ones.

Some of the country’s Roman Catholic schools have become refugees for Muslim students seeking equal opportunities and religious accommodation.

Pope Benedict XVI is looking to reconquer Europe, if not in numbers, then at the political table.

Speaking to French bishops, Pope Benedict XVI renewed his call to redefine church-state relations in France and urged clergy to engage in meaningful interreligious dialogue.

Pope Benedict XVI called on worshipers to recall victims of violence, war and terrorism as well as people facing suffering due to unemployment or their situation as immigrants.

A ruling upholding the law would be a setback for the conservative federal government of President Felipe Calderón, which challenged the law approved last month in Mexico City.

Many doctors are resisting offering to their patients a procedure that is now legal.

The infant Reformed Catholic Church has fueled a fresh debate over the interplay of religion and politics in Venezuela, one of Latin America?s most secular nations.