In late 2004, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi asked Abrasha Burstyn, the chief executive of a small Israeli cellphone company, for a phone that could put the secular world on hold.

Using a religious compass as their guide, tourists visit U.S. and international sites of spiritual significance.

ATLANTA -- "Grand Theft Auto" has been impounded in the Gardner household. So have 1,000 other video games filled with debauchery, decadence and carnage.

LOS ANGELES -- The filmmakers of "Left Behind: World at War" figured a little preaching to the choir would help market the Christian-themed thriller.

The Christian video game industry has a heavy cross to bear.

A French footwear company has recently managed to offend just about every member of the UK's Hindu community.

San Anselmo firm offers alternative to violence-filled products

CHICAGO - Several weeks after it first appeared, the Virgin Mary-like salt stain on the wall of an underpass in Chicago continues to draw scores of visitors -- and almost as many tall glass candles.

Wearing their hearts on their sleeves

Five days after the nation's Mormon faithful congregate at the annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, another flock of Mormon faithful will assemble at the sprawling South Towne Exposition Center in Sandy.

CNBC examines the growing business of evangelical Christianity

Late last week, Trapper Blu, a ski and snowboarding instructor from Wanship, Utah, dropped in with his family at Christopher's, a T-shirt shop in Greenwich Village, and tried on a shirt emblazoned with an image of Jesus and the slogan "Put Down the Drugs and Come Get a Hug."

Congregations try raising funds with various methods

DES MOINES (AP) - Churchgoers and religious volunteers will receive special discounts on their home and car insurance under a new product line launched by GuideOne Insurance.

I first met Bhakti Sondra Shaye, nEe Shaivitz, BA, MA, JD, guide, teacher, and adept member of the Great White Universal Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Light, ritual master in the High Council of Gor, universal Kabbalist, Reiki master, and metaphysician, at the New Life Expo at the Hotel New Yorker last October. The gathering bills itself as "America’s Largest Mind, Body, Spirit Expo", four floors of alternative spiritual options. Vendors bark discount rates; "consumers" haggle over the tools of their salvation. In New York, the hidden economy of New Age mysticism - elsewhere marked by disingenuous disdain for commerce - is laid bare with pride.

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