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Two conservative religious groups say they were also the subject of unusual scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service.

The Scottish cardinal who resigned as archbishop after admitting to sexual misconduct will leave Scotland for months of prayer and atonement, the Vatican said Wednesday in a rare sanction.

Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter says he won’t play a central Pennsylvania Christian college again unless it changes its policy against "homosexual behavior."

An LGBT Catholic group was threatened with arrest during a silent protest against NYC’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan who said gay worshipers must "wash your hands of sin" if they want to be welcomed by the Church.

The Mormon church has given its blessing to the Boy Scouts of America on its latest proposal to lift the gay ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders.

Members from the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN threw water at a Belgian archbishop to fight homophobia in the Catholic Church. The incident unsurprisingly drew ire from the religious right.

The principal of a Catholic high school in Columbus, Ohio, fired a teacher after someone noticed that, in her mother’s published obituary, she has a same-sex partner.

The Vatican has defrocked a gay priest from Argentina who supported the country’s gay marriage bill in 2010.

One of the nation’s most influential spiritual leaders, Rick Warren, is mourning the loss of his son, who reportedly took his own life on Friday, after a lifelong battle with mental illness. Ben Tracy reports.

Some gay rights activists and Catholic Church experts have found themselves at odds when interpreting comments made by two cardinals recently.