Faith

Muslims around the world celebrated the end of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast. The festival begins with the first sight of the new moon and was celebrated this year from Oct. 13 to 16.

The Personal Energy Transportation project is an interfaith organization sends vehicles to people around the world who cannot or have never walked.

Speaking in tongues is a worldwide mystery both in science and religion.

With the month of Ramadan in full swing, and the Yom Kippur fast recently ended, it’s time to examine the use of fasts in spiritual life.

Seventh-day Adventism is a fast growing religion with more than 14 million Seventh-day Adventists worldwide.

Mohamed El-Sayed Deif, a Quran reciter from Egypt, is reciting parts of the Quran daily at the Islamic Center of Central Missouri for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The sacrament comes in many forms and, depending on one’s denomination, may be received as either an infant or adult.

The religion places an emphasis on commitments based in love for God rather than skin color or ethnicity.

The governor’s proposal to make it easier for faith- and community-based groups to provide services for Missourians in need was greeted by a standing ovation at the second annual Faith-Based Initiatives Answering the Call Conference in Jefferson City.

Calvinists often summarize their faith into the acronym TULIP

Amr Khaled, known as the "anti-bin Laden," is stirring up controversy with his feel-good, upbeat form of Islam focused on coexistence.

Muslim festival includes prayer and fasting in return for rewarding destinies written by Allah.

Aquilla Butler's voice is her instrument, and she uses it to spread the gospel through her public access TV show and other performances.

Beth-El is one of the oldest temples west of the Mississippi River that still holds services at its original site. But its congregation is so small that it has never been able to afford to hire a rabbi, instead choosing to have lay leaders take turns stepping up to the dais.

A Jewish congregation manages to keep its synagogue running in the absence of a full-time rabbi.

The independently financed film takes a look at the Mountain Meadows Massacre as the 150th anniversary approaches.

Decades after his death, officials debate the beatification of a slain archbishop known as much for his political activism as for his faith.

Done with Sunday Bible class, kids raced to Babe Manns to get a stick of gum. Each took one and gave Manns a big hug. “I’m known as the Gum Man around here,” Manns said. “There are more kids who know me than the preacher.”

Brad Stewart was a teenage stock trader in 1986 when he went to a financial bookstore in Los Angeles and stumbled across a strange, smoke-filled back room devoted to an odd science.

Now, at age 40, he presides over the Sacred Science Institute, a small publishing company specializing in English translations of some of the most complicated and convoluted tracts ever written. The audience: people who see geometrical connections between the architecture of Hindu temples and fluctuations in the Dow Jones industrial average.

At first, the Web site director and his schoolteacher wife sent their 5-year-old son to a Confucian school in this central Chinese city simply because it was two minutes from home. But the more they learned about the school, the more they liked what they saw.