As the Episcopal Church deals with possible internal division over the approval of its first gay bishop, theologians discuss how debate about sexual orientation is affecting denominations worldwide.

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Episcopal leaders voted last night to make Gene Robinson the first openly gay bishop of their church.

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The Episcopal Church approved its first openly gay bishop on Tuesday, a day after allegations of sexual misconduct threatened to derail the ordination of New Hampshire Rev. Gene Robinson.

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Leaders of the Episcopal Church rescheduled a vote on their first openly gay bishop. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television reports on the continuing debate.

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Leaders of the U.S. Episcopal Church delayed a vote Monday to ordain their first openly gay bishop. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the controversy at the Episcopal convention.

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Ray Suarez reports on a church-state controversy over federal money being authorized to restore historic religious buildings.

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Following Thursday's Annual Conference of American Bishops, Ray Suarez speaks with Catholic bishops and victims' rights advocates about Church efforts to remedy the ongoing sex abuse crisis.

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Exercising their new-found religious freedom, hundreds of thousands of Shiites marched to the Holy City of Karbala in Iraq on Tuesday, in a pilgrimage long banned by Saddam Hussein's regime.

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Tuesday marked the first day that Shiite Muslims journeyed to Karbala in a pilgrimage banned for decades during Saddam Hussein's rule. Experts assess the role that religion and politics will play in the new Iraq.

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The Boston Globe on Monday received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism for exposing the sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests that led to changes within the Roman Catholic Church.

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