SALT LAKE CITY The Rev. Peter Morales of Colorado has been elected as the first Latino president of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

NEW YORK Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then suddenly pulled back.

Voices of Faith: How can we keep thinking good when so much bad is happening?

MINNEAPOLIS Naysayers told Jonny Nelson that he was being too ambitious when he suggested starting a skateboard-park ministry. After all, he was only 16.

TULSA, Okla. Workers are toiling in the thick summer heat, trying to bring the campus of Oral Roberts University into the current century.

The top five destinations for Mandaean refugees in the United States from 2002 through June 24, 2009:

The top five destinations for Mandaean refugees in the United States from 2002 through June 24, 2009:

FERNDALE, Mich. When the bride and groom arrive at the Mandaean Association, the Middle Eastern salad is ready and flower petals are lightly strewn across the floor.

WICHITA, Kan. The Vatican found enough evidence of a miracle in the survival of Chase Kear of Colwich, Kan., that it intends to keep studying his survival, with an eye toward declaring it an official miracle, church officials say.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Most states have child abuse laws allowing some religious exemptions for parents who shun medicine for their sick children, but a few recent cases highlight thorny legal issues for parents following less-recognized faiths.

VATICAN CITY Pope Benedict XVI signed his latest encyclical Monday, a text on ways to make globalization more attentive to meeting the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis.

MIAMI Alberto Cutie walked away from a picturesque Spanish monastery in Miami Friday evening as a married man, attempting to leave behind seven weeks of controversy that turned the former Roman Catholic priest into tabloid fodder and an international celebrity.

PHILADELPHIA Addressing an audience at the University of Pennsylvania Thursday morning, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped away from politics and focused on the divine. Specifically, the recent convert to Catholicism spoke about God.

WICHITA, Kan. "Chase survived in part because hundreds of people prayed to Father Emil Kapaun to intercede on his behalf. It was absolutely a miracle." - Paula Kear, Chase's mother

WASHINGTON U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have revised a document on Catholic-Jewish relations to affirm that the church must share its belief that salvation is through Christ.

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. Starting at age 4, Sheila Schuller Coleman has held just about every job at her father's Crystal Cathedral, from copying Sunday programs at the kitchen table to launching a private high school on the church grounds.

MIAMI Joshua DuBois made post-election headlines when Barack Obama asked him to lead a 25-member council of religious and nonprofit leaders that advises the president on policy, but he spoke of a softer subject in South Florida recently: his relationship with his "little brother," 15-year-old Adid Brayboy, whom he has mentored for nine years.

Voices of faith: Are some people just heartless and can't be changed?

BEDFORD, Texas Christians must show love to all people, even if they don't support their values, evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren on Tuesday told breakaway Episcopalians and other Anglicans splitting from their national church over gay clergy and other issues.

On the 30th anniversary of its conservative resurgence, the Southern Baptist Convention is poised to take on its next battle: declining numbers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Julie Price has left the Catholic Church, Christianity and God.

The series of weekend conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses being held at Toyota Center in Kennewick this summer continues today and Sunday. The convention is in Spanish.

Lutheran Church of the Master in Pasco is planning a night of ice cream and fellowship Thursday at the park near Maya Angelou Elementary School at 6001 Road 84.

Several events are planned at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Kennewick through Thursday as part of Parish Mission Week.

HERMISTON -- The Christian women's club Time Out will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Pheasant Cafe banquet room in Hermiston.

A garage sale and bake sale to raise money for mission work in Haiti is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 15-16 at 6514 W. Ninth Place, Kennewick.

Riverview United Methodist Church in Pasco will hold beach parties from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday and Aug. 17.

Cathedral of Joy in Richland is holding the 2008 "No Hungry Child" Golf Tournament on Aug. 17 at Canyon Lakes Golf Course.