This is a film which could generate an important debate over why the woman, who was Jesus’s most faithful follower and remained with him as he died, while the other apostles fled, and was the first witness to his resurrection, was airbrushed out of the picture from the very beginnings of Christianity.

Bali’s annual Day of Silence is sacred and this year all phone companies have agreed to shut down the mobile internet for 24 hours during “Nyepi,” a day marking New Year on the predominantly Hindu island.

Joy Behar, a co-host of ABC’s “The View,” has apologized to Vice President Mike Pence for what he said was mocking his Christian faith and suggesting his religious views made him mentally ill.

Since its publication in 1962, “A Wrinkle in Time” has become one of the most frequently banned or challenged books. The book’s author, Madeleine L’Engle, an Episcopalian, imbued her novel with religious elements and ideas. Among conservative Christians, though, one of the biggest objections has historically been the way that L’Engle, mixes science and religion.

A 76-year-old North Carolina woman died Friday in a house fire that was the culmination of a day of terror for her and her husband, a Baptist pastor, authorities said.

While Hong Kong’s pastors are not allowed to proselytize, sermonize or establish churches in mainland China without official permission, many defy these prohibitions to cultivate a network of underground “house churches” in homes and workplaces.

A move by Rwanda to shut down more than 700 churches in its capital city, allegedly for building safety, hygiene and noise violations, is prompting accusations that the government of President Paul Kagame is trampling on religious freedom.

In her new book, “Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment,” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz deftly traces the historical and religious roots attaching to the sanctity of the Second Amendment in the minds of millions of Americans who are not gun owners or NRA members.

The protesters say that professors are unequipped or unwilling to deal with queer theology and that LGBTQ students who want to engage with those issues aren’t given the resources to do so.

What am I to say to a dying body about the Resurrected One? What am I to say to an institution that is beginning to gather the sheets and pillows to make its bed in the grave about Jesus Christ who broke the chains of death?

Hayes Barton Baptist Church wants to level a half-dozen homes in a National Register historic district in Raleigh to build a parking lot, but critics say the plan doesn’t show much love for the church’s neighbors.

The vast majority of U.S. Catholics continue to have a favorable opinion of Pope Francis, but a new Pew Research Center survey finds signs of growing discontent among Catholics on the political right, with increasing shares of Catholic Republicans saying they think he is too liberal and naïve.