In New York’s latest religious battle, a group protested the Empire State Building’s rejection of a request for blue-and-white lighting in honor of Mother Teresa.

After years ignoring spiritual leaders’ sexual liaisons, American Buddhists are now re-examining to handle such improprieties.

Clerics suffer from obesity, hypertension and depression at rates higher than most Americans, and are being advised to take more time off.

Itzhak Beery runs his Greenwich Village advertising agency during the week, and conducts shamanistic healing ceremonies on Sundays.

Itzhak Beery runs his Greenwich Village advertising agency during the week, and conducts shamanistic healing ceremonies on Sundays.

Mr. Webber’s initiatives included remaking a major New York seminary, starting storefront churches in Harlem and beginning a program to educate prison inmates as pastors.

Experts in prison ministry say the work of David Berkowitz, through his descriptions of his self-proclaimed redemption, stands out.

The Rev. Isidro Bolaños told people from his church in Red Hook that a big social service agency would begin in March.

Father Carter, a professor and social worker, helped establish the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the New York chapter of DignityUSA.

The Princeton scholar Cornel West, at Newark’s airport, says he has never spent a weekend in Princeton.Cornel West, Princeton professor and civil rights activist, hasn’t had breakfast on Sunday since 1984. But that hasn’t slowed down his traveling for lectures.