Religion_Belief
Latest Stories

20120605-161211-pic-831911091.jpg
In a Wednesday, May 2, 2012 photo Atif Zarka, 64, a volunteer Aramaic teacher's assistant holds a copy of the Gospel of Luke in Aramaic script in the Arab village of Jish, northern Israel. Jish is one of two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community that are teaching Aramaic to their children in an ambitious effort to preserve the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the modern Middle East. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

20120604-170454-pic-797941040.jpg
Letters written by U.S. Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty of Columbia, S.C., are among the personal artifacts exchanged. In one, he wrote, "I have never been so scared in my life." The North Vietnamese used his letters for propaganda.

20120603-212306-pic-799708187.jpg
Religious leaders who backed President Obama in 2008 say the Democrats have squandered the substantial gains they made with religious moderates and worry it will hurt Mr. Obama in a tight race. (Associated Press)

20120603-182452-pic-858079153.jpg
Baba Ramdev (left), an Indian yoga guru, and Anna Hazare, an Indian anti-corruption crusader, greet supporters during a fast in New Delhi on Sunday. The Indian anti-corruption campaigners held a daylong protest to press the government to act against widespread graft and bring back hundreds of billions of dollars stashed overseas. (Associated Press)

Strengthening Job Mar_Live.jpg
Job seekers gather May 31, 2012, for employment opportunities at the 11th annual Skid Row Career Fair at the Los Angeles Mission in Los Angeles. (Associated Press

APTOPIX Economy_Live.jpg
Job seekers gather May 31, 2012, for employment opportunities at the 11th annual Skid Row Career Fair at the Los Angeles Mission in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

20120531-183517-pic-136995593.jpg
In "For Greater Glory,"Andy Garcia plays a general who sides with Catholics in the Cristero War of the 1920s over the Mexican government's restrictions on worship. With him, holding the flag, is Mauricio Kuri. The mostly Latino cast speaks in English. (ARC Entertainment via Associated Press)

Obama_Reps.jpg
President Barack Obama speaks at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

bildeberg_20120531_1776
Protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

bildeberg_20120531_1773
Protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

bildeberg_20120531_1772
Protesters Frank Mineo, of Queensbury, N.Y., left, and Herb Schraw, of Toledo, Ohio, center, joins other protesters to demonstrate at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

bildeberg_20120531_1769
Protester Melissa Faust, of York, Pa. holds signs as she and other protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

bildeberg_20120531_1768
Protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

20120530-220739-pic-871596027.jpg
Judge Erik P. Christian of the D.C. Superior Court swears in Mr. McDuffie on Wednesday at the John A. Wilson Building. With him on the dais were his wife, daughter and parents. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)