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Knoxville’s non-denominational NorthStar Church held services at local bar Monday night with a country-music themed sermon, after which everybody was invited to stick around and dance. Church at the Cotton-Eyed Joe honky-tonk saloon was a success, says  Pastor Scott Cagle. He admits the non-traditional venue may raise a few eyebrows, but “we’re a church that…

A panel of federal judges has ruled that New York violated the First Amendment rights of car owners who want their tags to declare “Choose Life.” The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled in 2006 that a lawsuit between anti-abortion activists and New York’s Department of Motor Vehicles could move forward. However,…

They stand in silence, 10 feet tall, Christian kids on folding chairs hidden under their robes and wings in Mexico’s murder capital, the border town of Ciudad Juarez. “Young members of a small church known as Psalm 100,” writes Damien Cave in the New York Times, “have begun dressing as angels in an effort to…

Bil Keane, 89, the creator of the world’s most popular single-panel newspaper comic, the Family Circus, died Tuesday. He left behind a half-century of daily visits to the Keane family where he, his wife, now-grown kids and their pets were the models for Daddy, Mommy, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, P.J.,  Barfy, Sam and Kittycat. The comic…

Crowned Miss World 2011, Venezuela’s Ivian Sarcos not so many years ago yearned to become a nun. Orphaned at age 8, she was raised by the Catholic sisters of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart in the rural town of Cojedes. Sunday, the 22-year-old accepted her crown from U.S.-born Miss World 2010 Alexandria Mills and reflected on her long journey from a rural South…

A young Boston couple’s domestic quarrel in a Burger King restaurant went very public Wednesday after an eavesdropping diner put onto Twitter a blow-by-blow account of their verbal exchange — which was picked up by the British tabloid newspaper, the Daily Mail. “I am listening to a marriage disintegrate at a table next to me in this restaurant. Aaron Sorkin…

Whether or not to legalize lifestyles they consider immoral should not be a requirement for receiving British foreign aid, a key African leader told Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday. Offended by the implication that Ghana’s former colonial masters in Great Britain are wiser than native Africans, Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills says Britain does not…

The ruins of the 1,500-year-old St. Menas’ church and monastery near Alexandria, Egypt, are sinking into water-saturated soil and may be added to the UN’s list of World Heritage Sites in Danger. The situation worsened two weeks ago with the collapse of an ancient crypt at the site. Called “Abu Mena” ever since it was destroyed around 600 AD…

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church and the Muslim group Al-Azhar have come to an agreement on a unified law for building houses of worship, according to the Cairo daily newspaper al-Masry al-Youm. Egypt has long had strict rules prohibiting the repair or construction of Christian churches — requiring a presidential edict before any work can be done.…

A Canadian who saw a woman stranded on a Wisconsin highway with a flat tire stopped and helped — only to have the tables turned on him a few miles down the road when she saved his life. “Indiana-bound Victor Giesbrecht, 61, a father of four from Winnipeg, was driving east Saturday evening on Interstate…
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