Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | 2 comments
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (Reuters) - The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years after his death.
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | Post a comment

Pope Benedict XVI and President Bush attend the arrival ceremony for the pope on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 16, 2008.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008 | One comment
A conservative Christian group yesterday criticized a large Methodist church in the District for planning to offer services that recognize gay and lesbian relationships, saying they violate the United Methodist ban on same-sex unions.
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Monday, January 14th, 2008 | 3 comments
A director who shares the ideas of Iran’s hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the “common ground” between Muslims and Christians.
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Friday, December 28th, 2007 | Post a comment
Al-Arabiya TV Interview with Former Al-Qaeda Trainer in Iraq: ‘Al-Qaeda Got its Ideology From the Koran and Sunna… The Only Problem [for the Mujahideen] in Iraq is the [U.S.] Air Force… Yes, I Am a Terrorist, What’s the Problem?’
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 | 6 comments

Pope Benedict XVI poses with Britain’s then-outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair during a private audience at the Vatican in June. Mr. Blair converted to Catholicism Friday. (OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AFP/Getty Images)
Is this his first step to his promise of a new “interfaith foundation”?
—ITD Editor
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007 | Post a comment
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C - News) Chief Executive Charles Prince plans to resign this weekend, the Wall Street Journal said, as the widening subprime mortgage crisis deals a final blow to a reign long under attack.
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007 | Post a comment

One of the religious Buddhist cloth paintings displayed in Bloomington city hall
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Monday, October 15th, 2007 | 16 comments

Burned into the memory: The image that appeared in the bonfire, Tending his flock: Pope John Paul II at an audience in 2001
Is it hot there? Did his stick burn up? Where’s his cap?
—ITD Editor
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