• Pic on WWII Horror Stirs Debate in China

  An American movie about Japan's mass slaughter of Chinese citizens in the World War II era will be released in China next week amid renewed friction between the countries.

  

• Hong Kong Cardinal Criticizes China Ordination

  Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen on Friday lashed out at China's latest ordination of a bishop without papal approval — the third known case this year — accusing Beijing of reneging on a promise to the

• Hawking: Origin of Universe Questions Close to Being Answered

  World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.

• Hawking Discusses God And Science

  Famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that Pope John Paul II tried to discourage him and other scientists attending a cosmology conference at the Vatican from trying to figure out how the univ

• China Theaters to Pull 'Da Vinci Code'

  The Chinese government, in an unprecedented move, has ordered movie theaters to stop showing 'The Da Vinci Code' to make way for locally produced films, movie industry officials said Thursday.