“Changing the law would threaten the integrity and independence of houses of worship,” reads the letter faith leaders sent to protect church-state separation.

In the weeks before Kenya's election on Aug. 8, ethnic tensions ran high, prompting religious leaders—Christian and Muslim—to preach for peace.

The festival cultivates a conversation of hope around the Holy Land, with many groups coming together to engage visitors with the situation of Christians and of peace in the Holy Land.

The World Communion of Reformed Churches signed a declaration this week endorsing the 1999 Catholic-Lutheran agreement on how Christians might be worthy of salvation in the eyes of God.

Frail and severely malnourished, she looks a lot like every other underfed child here—until you realize she's not really like any of them at all. A tiny girl with big brown eyes, Rosmaida is 4—but barely the size of a 1-year-old.

Their invalid marriages put these Catholics on the margins of the church.