Photo credits: PAOLO COCCO:REUTERS - THE STOCK MARKET Ask the Internet search engine Alta Vista to locate sites related to "Sex", and it returns 683,643 documents. Request "God" and it lists nearly three times as many: 1,772,945.

The Internet, oft-represented as a domain of sin and sleaze, also hosts a healthy community of believers. Logging on, Catholics are keyboard-to-keyboard with Devil-worshippers, Jews are modem-to-modem with Islamic fundamentalists. Result: A lively dialogue about faith that spans the Internet.