A children’s story based on the tale of the Three Little Pigs was rejected for an award after judges became concerned that it would offend Muslims.

The makers of "What Would Jesus Buy?" have a problem -- how do you sell a film documenting performance artist Rev. Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a guerrilla U.S. to  read more »

The effort to speak up for decency at checkout stands in retail establishments is the motivation behind the « Fools for Christ » campaign from the American Decency Association (ADA). From magazines to newspapers, advocates are hoping to remove objectionable material as members of nationwide communities speak up.

Organizers of San Francisco's hedonistic Folsom Street Fair — sponsored by Miller Brewing, Co.  read more »

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  read more »

The director of the Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary, which claims that Jesus of Nazareth and his family were laid to rest in a burial tomb in what is today the Jerusalem neighborhood of East Talpiot, has rejected claims that scholars who were interviewed in the film have now backtracked and revised their conclusions.

'Kingdom Come' is set to hit stores April 3. The end times series helped shepherd the rise of Christian publishing.

They took us into the future with the apocalyptic thrillers of the "Left Behind" series. Now, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins are taking readers back to early Christianity with "The Jesus Chronicles." The four-book series focuses on the writers of the Gospels.  read more »

An advertisement for a religious campaign has been ruled out of order for lack of evidence that Jesus can heal AIDS.

India's most watched religious channel, Aastha, has announced plans to introduce a religious version of the reality television show, Pop Idol.

Are Sarah and John Connor a sci fi version of Mary and Jesus?

Did you know that Jesus Christ was a pimp? He must have been. I saw it on TV.

After films like The Da Vinci Code and The Passion of The Christ, another controversial film on anti-Christ is on the cards.

Happened today on Good Morning America. The show ran a segment on a painting by someone named Ron Burns who has recreated da Vinci's Last Supper with dogs substituted for Jesus and his disciples. Even more than the image itself, some will surely find the title that the "artist" gave to his work offensive: "Dinner and Drinks with Son of Dog."  read more »

More than a quarter of all Americans identify themselves as evangelical Christians, and the number is growing. There were dozens of fascinating stories in American religion in 2006, and on Monday, Christmas night, we'll be taking a look back at some of the people and trends that defined the year in Jesus.

Stephen Baldwin, the man born into Hollywood royalty, has been born again.  read more »

The "Utah War" has largely faded from American memory as the Mormon Church – and the public's acceptance of it – evolved.  read more »

They call California the land of fruits and nuts for more than one reason. Proof is presented every day and front and center comes from a Bloomberg Report that details that visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer.  read more »

• Jesus was not born of a virgin;
• His father Joseph was a literary construct, as was Judas;
• His family thought he was out of his mind;
• There were probably not  read more »

A devotional film on Christianity Antima Theerpu was launched at Annapurna Studio on Wednesday. J Rajender is the director while Dhanekula Mallesh is producing it. The story is about the r  read more »

A North Carolina artist intrigued by the public obsession with celebrity has found herself feeding that obsession with a painting of actress Angelina Jolie as the Virgin Mary hovering over a Wal-Mart checkout line.  read more »

The Twelve Disciples by Tony Yardley and Claire Spooner in collaboration with Carl Spooner reduces the 13 religious characters as different types of chairs.

Billboards and posters have begun appearing in major metropolitan areas (like New York and San Francisco – most likely because this is riskier in the red states) with the slogan: "The Algorithm Constantly Finds Jesus"  read more »

The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is spending $2,100 on six signs appearing for up to two months inside 50 buses.  read more »

The awards recognized the most performed songs on Christian radio during 2006, a BMI news release said. Twenty-five songs were honored in the Christian Rock, Contemporary Christian, Inspirational, Urban Gospel and Southern Gospel categories

The debate, which was originally planned for May 5, was rescheduled for this coming Wednesday so that the Christian speakers - Ray Comfort (author of God Doesn't Believe in Atheists) and Kirk Cameron (Growing Pains) - and their two atheist opponents would have more time to speak their views and so that a larger audience could be captured for their discussion.

Suffolk's new Church of England bishop has announced that he will create Podcasts to introduce himself to his diocese.The 10th Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, the Rt Rev Nigel St  read more »

Swanson has written a provocative new book theorizing that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene, that they bore children and that LDS Church founder Joseph Smith was their direct descendant. Swanson also suggests that this heavenly birthright gave Smith spiritual authority as a prophet and affirms the historical legitimacy of the LDS Church.

When the Sight & Sound Theatre opens in the spring of 2008, it will be Branson's biggest building — at 339,000 square feet — and home to "Noah The Musical," based on the Bible story. The production has a cast of 45 actors, 150 live animals and an equal number of animatronic beasts. While the size of the project is impressive, owners Glenn and Shirley Eschelman say their faith in their God-given mission is worth the investment.  read more »

It was a moment of less-than-divine intervention last Sunday when a church security guard pulled a gun on a photographer outside Britney Spears’ house of worship.

Discovery Channel has put off the screening following protests by Christian groups in US, Canada, Jerusalem and India against the documentary.

Some Christians have called for an apology from CBS for actor Charlie Sheen's mocking of Christ, Christmas and Christians on a program shown earlier this week.

A Swedish artist unveiled Tuesday a sculpture depicting Christ as a well-endowed dog, saying he wanted to stimulate debate about religion and freedom of expression in the wake of a row ove  read more »

Tate Modern has been accused of religious discrimination and institutional anti-Christian bias in its commissioning procedures, by an artist who is taking the gallery to an employment trib  read more »

The theme park — providing a daylong dose of sermons, music and theatrics designed to reinforce evangelical teachings — is one of the most obvious signals that Christian entertainment has entered the mainstream.  read more »

The BBC are facing accusations of anti-Christian bias after a BBC drama portrayed evangelical extremists murdering Muslims. One Christian group said the corporation had a "sinister" and "malicious" agenda against their faith, while another claimed the BBC1 Spooks programme could be an "incitement to hatred" against them.  read more »

A children’s fantasy film that stars Nicole Kidman and features a little girl on a quest to kill God has some Christian groups upset over what they believe is a ploy to promote atheism t  read more »

An assortment of Christian organizations is hoping that when faithful gamers leave their favorite retailers this holiday season, they'll leave behind one new religious real-time strategy game. Groups including CrossWalk America, Christian Alliance for Progress, The Center for Progressive Christianity, and The Beatitudes Society are calling for a boycott and a recall of Left Behind Games' first title, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, saying it promotes a number of decidedly un-Christian values.  read more »

Stealth-based third-person action game preaching Christian values announced; violence-free title set in days after The Rapture.

AN Italian magazine report which sought to prove that what some priests tell Catholics in the confessional is not always what the Church preaches in public has enraged the Vatican.  read more »

HILLSONG church is not ruling out legal action against Channel 7 after Today Tonight last week claimed the religion was stacking votes in favour of its members in the Australian Idol final  read more »

The Church of Scientology issued this statement to the TODAY show on Jan. 14, 2008 in advance of author Andrew Morton's appearance on the show today.  read more »

Church leaders have accused Sony of the "desecration" of Manchester Cathedral, after the firm set one of its top-selling games inside the place of worship. The new PlayStation3 game, entitled 'Resistance: Fall of Man', which has sold more than a million copies, sees a virtual shoot-out between rival gunmen with hundreds killed during a gun battle inside the cathedral in an orgy of blood.  read more »

Understanding is what Amanpour is trying to promote in "God's Warriors," which takes up six prime-time hours on CNN this week.  read more »

It actually took several hundred years for the life and teachings of Jesus to develop into a religion about Jesus.

The Coca Cola Company has taken legal action against producers of a spirituality themed Italian film set in present day Israel in which Jesus drinks a can of Coke in the desert.

A new report on religious news coverage claims that the major media give too much coverage to religious conservatives.

A new historical fiction thriller "The Rozabal Line" by Shawn Haigins has claime  read more »

Now, in JESUS, INTERRUPTED: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them), Ehrman goes even further, revealing not only that the Bible is riddled with  read more »

“I would like to see God and Jesus Christ taken off TV and movies,” he said, noting that television and movie production companies have already done the same thing for tobacco. “I want to see them do the same thing for the Lord’s name.”

A SCOTS author claims to have gone one better than Dan Brown in solving history's greatest conspiracy theories.  read more »

In the course of making the painting, Velasco said that he "smelled the scent of death" and so, he painted a human skull at the lower right side of the painting.  read more »

Paintings portraying Jesus Christ as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin are prompting charges of abuse of religious symbols by Russian Orthodox Church leaders.The paintings, part of the "Forbidden Art" exhibit at the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, went on ­display March 7.

Jesus: the Lost Years was first unveiled in New York early this summer, and runs 85 minutes with some subtitles.Perry's original film, Jesus in Egypt: Discovering the Secrets of Ch  read more »

However, dear friends, Imus didn't have to humble himself and appear on that genuine faux preacher Rev. Al Sharpton's radio program and say that his comments were wrong, seeking forgiveness.  read more »

A Dutch politician known for his views against Islam plans to air a film he produced that is critical of the Koran, which he likens to Adolf Hitler's hateful writings.  read more »

I have never, and I mean never, seen a documentary that so deliberately and consistently uses circular reasoning, ad hominem attacks, unfounded assertions, straw-man arguments, and general poor reasoning.  read more »

Back on January 12th, the pressofatlanticcity.com reported on the aftermath of an event sponsored by ESPN morning talkers “Mike & Mike” in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  read more »

Let’s just say the pumpkin that Paoli’s Mike Parks carved for this Halloween season was a bit out  read more »

Johnny Weir is set to take the ice on Saturday night at the 2007 U.S. Figure Skating Championships with a long program free skate routine set to "Child of Nazareth" by Maxime Rodriguez, in which the flamboyant skater will tell the story of Jesus

The film takes a different approach to the gays-in-the-church debate.  read more »

Sean Tracey first realized that Carl J.  read more »

A former glamour model and soap star sits on top of a bus shelter, squeezed into a silver catsuit. A pregnant teenager stands below, nearby is an abandoned shopping trolley.  read more »

Whitaker is the voice of Moses in "Inspired By ... The Bible Experience: Old Testament," officials said Tuesday. The audio Bible, to be released in November on 72 CDs and on iTunes, features an all-black cast of more than 200 actors, singers and clergy, officials said Tuesday. The dramatic performances are set to an original musical score performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra.  read more »

A gay Jesus and a black female Christ are among the startling images that will go on display at the National Festival of Progressive Spiritual Art in Taos, NM on May 11-12.

The new advertising campaign, designed to gain new club subscribers, features images of Jesus being crucified - albeit with the caption, "If you are going to sacrifice yourself, do it  read more »

Drew Heriot, director of the popular New Age-ish documentary The Secret, has found Jesus.  read more »

Christmas carols make spirits bright, and they can also give some pointers about the economy and personal finance. Let's do some investing the Christmas carol way.

ORLANDO, Fla. – What exactly makes a Christian film?

An Italian politician has sparked a furore by urging state broadcaster Rai to block the transmission of a controversial BBC documentary.

"The Passion of the Christ" star Jim Caviezel will reprise his role as Jesus in the forthcoming "The Word of Promise: New Testament Audio Bible." The 20-CD set will be released in October by Thomas Nelson Inc.

It'll be a bit different than the current film, says Gregiore. "We will reorder the events and make more of a story and a dramatic film out of it. But, we're still using God&#  read more »

FOR more than six divine minutes, a mysterious ghostly voice repeatedly told Seven Network viewers: "Jesus Christ one of the Navarines" during a documentary on a train disaster screened last night.  read more »

Zach Johnson wasn't more than a couple dozen words into his post-round interview when he started talking about his faith, giving credit to Jesus for winning the Masters.

A 13th-place opening weekend doesn't sound good to most studios, but for 20th Century Fox's new Christian division, FoxFaith, it has to sound great. The Ultimate Gift made over $1 million on only 814 screens, which should be encouraging for others in Hollywood still interested in cashing in on success of The Passion of the Christ.  read more »

Ron Howard's Oscar-winning producing partner Brian Grazer will make a contemporary romantic comedy in which Jesus works as a carpenter in Ikea.

Several prominent scholars who were interviewed in a bitterly contested documentary that suggests that Jesus and his family members were buried in a nondescript ancient Jerusalem burial cave have now revised their conclusions, including the statistician who claimed that the odds were 600:1 in favor of the tomb being the family burial cave of Jesus of Nazareth, a new study on the fallout from the popular documentary shows.

Sermonspice.com has posted several spoof ads depicting Jesus vs. Santa set to a simple melody designed to mimic Apple's 'Get a Mac' TV commercials....

Large posters depicting Jesus Christ washing the feet of world leaders and terrorist Osama bin Laden have generated numerous complaints at the Oregon malls where the banners briefly hung.

At least two billboard signs that seek to get people to re-examine homosexuality by using biblical references have been vandalized in Indianapolis.

Saints were psychotic and advances in modern medicine have essentially wiped them off the planet.  read more »

"A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award.  read more »

"Church Boy" will depict how Franklin overcame an absentee mother and teenage years filled with sex and drugs to become a highly-successful gospel singer and founder of Fo Yo Soul Entertainment.

The United Church of Christ is celebrating a landmark decision by the Federal Communications Commission, which has ruled in favor of the church's filed complaint that Univision, the nation's largest Hispanic television network, is not serving the educational programming needs of children.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is publishing its own edition of a Spanish-language Bible.It's the first time the Mormon church has published an edition of the Bible in a l  read more »

It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real.  read more »

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is sending out a reminder that it’s doing God’s work on earth.The church recently launched national television advertising spots with the tag  read more »

A newspaper catering to Malaysia's ethnic Indians published a front-page apology Thursday after causing an outrage by printing an image of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette.

A melee broke out last week in Jonkoping, Sweden, after a group of fundamentalist Christian young people set a fire outside a celebrated photomural exhibit that portrays Jesus as gay.  read more »

The student, Chandramohan who is from Hyderabad had put up the exhibition as part of his academic acitivity. But his unpleasant paintings depicting goddess Durga and Vishnu in semi nude positions evoked anger.  read more »

That would be Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., which, in addition to building a media empire on the chests of topless models and edgy, pushing-the-envelope Fox TV network shows, recently began building a stable of hard-core porn channels for its BSkyB subsidiary.

MGM has obtained the North American theatrical distribution rights to Myriam, Mother of the Christ, the biblical story of Mary.

A life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus will finally be displayed in New York starting in late October, seven months after an outcry by Roman Catholics forced a different gallery  read more »

New book by Robert Korczynski, "Buddha's Big Foot," presents the well-documented evidence that a Jewish man was not the first person to speak the words of Jesus; all of the, "New Testament  read more »

A new DVD documenting evidence for the Christ's resurrection was recently released by Grizzly Adams Productions, a corporation that releases family-friendly films, television series and specials.

Christ through the ages: Now comes a new exhibition at the BYU Museum of Art that visualizes the arc of Jesus' life while chronicling the way Christian artists have portrayed him over the centuries.  read more »

In a culture where women are devalued regularly, SAT-7 is getting ready to launch a new film that does the opposite in the Middle East. On April 15, the ministry broadcasts the film "JESUS, As Witnessed By Mary Magdalene".

New Line's religious education is the latest effort by Hollywood to get in touch with the Christian market. The status of that moviegoing set climbed in the wake of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," about the crucifixion, and Walt Disney Co.'s "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which had underlying Christian themes. Twentieth Century Fox has launched FoxFaith, a theatrical and home-video distribution label for Christian films.  read more »

A new women's magazine will finally bridge the gap between religion and sex -- at least for religious Afrikaans women in South Africa.

More than just a collection of bible quotes, the book reveals how to bridge the gap between professional and spiritual success with Jesus as the model.  read more »

A Sunday newspaper was quite within its rights to refuse to print a lengthy piece of religious writing as an advertisement and should not have to pay $5 million for refusing to do so, the Court of Appeal ruled today.

Worried that ads for "The Nativity Story" would offend non-Christians browsing in the traditional German Christkindlmarket in the heart of downtown, the city asked the German American Chamber of Commerce to reconsider New Line Cinema, which made the film, as a sponsor.  read more »

At first glance it looks like any other teen magazine, in a glossy colour cover and in a handbag size - aimed at "girls with spirit". But don't expect to find any tips on snogging techniques. Grace, to be launched next month, is an attempt by the church to appeal to a fresh audience as attendance figures fall.  read more »

O'REILLY: Well, here's the problem that I have with throwing in my lot with science. Science doesn't advance the human condition in any moralistic way, and Jesus did.  read more »

Native Houstonian and Christian sensation Joel Osteen heads up a mega church with 42,000 people who attend weekly and is known internationally for his teachings.  read more »

The LDS church calls a four-hour PBS documentary on its founding and beliefs a quote "welcome change." A statement on lds-dot-org says the documentary steered clear of on-sided stereotypes to show a new, broader dimension of the Church.  read more »

Prime Minister John Howard has condemned two entries in Australia's top religious art competition because they appear to ridicule Christianity.A holographic image that combines Osama b  read more »

A recent survey commissioned by the American Bible Society and carried out by respected pollster Zogby International shows that 85 percent of American viewers want more religious values and references to the Bible, and less sex and violence shown on television.

Catholic bishops in Belgium have protested against a TV ad depicting Jesus as a pot-bellied hippy picking up half-naked women in a nightclub.

Since when is the Catholic Church against stem cell research?  read more »

John Sweeney's outburst came as he was interviewing Tommy Davis, a Scientology spokesman who had objected to Sweeney's use of the word "cult." Sweeney's rant was captured by BBC's Panorama program, to air Monday, and Scientology video cameras.

A number of religious Web sites are aping the names and styles of some of the Web's most popular sites. Chief among them are GodTube.com, a video-sharing site for Christians, and MyChurch.org, a social networking realm.

And as for her Catholic upbringing, Jones said, “I didn’t necessarily learn about Jesus. I learned how to be Catholic. A lot of churches are like that, not focusing on the message but on how to practice the religion.  read more »