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When faith-based advocacy groups hold a protest, they often dress it up in prayer. It's not enough to say to the gathered people and (hopefully)...

After having worked for several years as a youth pastor, I recently accepted a call to be an interim solo pastor....

According to the Pew Forum, 49 percent of the U.S....

My wife and I recently moved to a Chicago neighborhood that is farther...

With the terrorist attack that barely failed on a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day and the opening of a new U.S....

Up with religion: Religion is now the most popular theme studied by historians, according to a member survey by the American Historical Association. Culture had previously taken the top spot in surveys over the past 15 years. A decade ago only 2 percent of job openings and fellowships posted with the AHA listed religion among the desired specializations; last year, 10 percent listed religion (Inside Higher Ed, December 21).

About one-third of the countries in the world have high restrictions on religion, exposing almost 70 percent of the globe’s population to limitations on their faith, according to the Pew Fo...

Anglicans in Zimbabwe say that clerics loyal to President Robert Mugabe have marshalled the national police to disrupt services in the country’s capital city of Harare....

The World Council of Churches has raised concerns about a proposed law in Uganda calling for the jailing and possible execution of homosexuals....

Faith groups have expressed disappointment and anger over the outcome of the United Nations talks in Copenhagen on climate change, pledging to continue to press for environmental justice....

Four Irish Catholic bishops have resigned within the first 30 days after a government-ordered investigation announced that over decades the Dublin archdiocese had shielded from the law more than 17...

There’s a reason the South is known as the Bible Belt: a survey shows that Southerners—and Mississippians in particular—are the most active in their religious practices and beliefs....

A decree moving the controversial wartime Pope Pius XII one step closer to sainthood is not a “hostile act toward the Jewish people,” said the Vatican’s top spokesman....

The number of Americans who are praying is increasing at the same time that more of them say they have no formal religious affiliation, according to a major polling organization....

Criticized in the past for remarks that upset many in America’s Jewish community, former President Jimmy Carter has apologized for any of his words or actions that might have served to stigmatize I...

It’s gotten ugly out there in the public square—on television, at public meetings, on the Internet....

When Pope Benedict XVI visited Africa last March, he made countless pleas on behalf of the poor and the war-weary....

The final draft of a long-debated document aimed at mediating disputes between liberals and conservatives in the global Anglican Communion was sent in mid-December to the communion’s 38 provinces...

DisciplesWorld, an award-winning magazine that covered the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as an independent journal, is shutting its doors after eight years of publication....

When Boston area artist Paula Rendino needed fresh inspiration more than a year ago, she sought her muse in an unlikely place: seminary. Art school would have been “too boring,” Rendino explained....