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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah -- seen delivering a speech during last month's oil summit in Jeddah -- will launch an inter-faith conference in Spain later this month. Islam's holiest shrines are situated in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi king to launch inter-faith forum in Madrid

AFP - Saturday, July 5 03:44 pm

RIYADH (AFP) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose country is home to Islam's holiest shrines, will launch an inter-faith conference in Spain later this month, the palace said Saturday. More »

Mostly Muslim Syria marks 'year of St Paul'
AFP - Friday, July 4 03:04 pm
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Predominantly Muslim Syria has launched a celebration to mark 2,000 years since the birth of Saint Paul, who converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus and helped spread the new religion to the non-Jewish world. More »
Anglicanism faces schism over gay priests, women bishops
AFP - Wednesday, July 2 03:27 am
LONDON (AFP) - A divisive row over homosexuality and women bishops has left the worldwide Anglican Communion facing one of its worst ever crises, to the point where there is talk of an irrevocable schism. More »
Clergy threaten to leave Church of England over women bishops: report
AFP - Tuesday, July 1 02:26 am
LONDON (AFP) - More than 1,300 Church of England clergy have written to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, threatening to leave the church if proposals allowing women to be consecrated as bishops are passed, The Times reported Tuesday. More »
Archbishop of Canterbury alarmed by conservative breakaway
AFP - Monday, June 30 07:11 pm
LONDON (AFP) - The Archbishop of Canterbury expressed deep concern on Monday at radical proposals made by a breakaway Christian orthodox movement that rejects a liberal stance towards homosexuality. More »
Conservative Anglicans form breakaway church
AFP - Monday, June 30 04:28 pm
LONDON (AFP) - A new Christian orthodox movement that rejects a liberal stance towards homosexuality and claims to represent half the world's 80 million Anglicans has been formed following a conference in Jerusalem. More »
Saudis pour billions into 'City of Knowledge' on holy site
AFP - Sunday, June 29 04:35 am
MEDINA, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is pouring billions of dollars into Medina, burial place of the Prophet Mohammed and the cradle of Islam, to turn the religion's second holiest site into a high-tech bastion. More »