Whatever role pastors and other clergy had during the fight against slavery and Jim Crow, there is a specific history that pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas is ignoring.

AUDIO STORY | Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Ga., lent support and hospitality to their new neighbor, Malik Waliyani, whose nearby BP gas station had been robbed and ransacked just a few days earlier.

Texas is home to the largest Muslim population in the U.S. But for a new generation of leaders the challenge is to make sure their community feels welcome in their own backyard.

Among the new GOP platform’s highlights is a proposal to repeal a 50-year-old tax law that prohibits churches and other tax-exempt organizations from political organizing.

Iraq’s marshlands, which lie in the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are believed to be the inspiration for the Bible’s Garden of Eden.

Let’s be really honest with each other, were you really shocked that this happened?

Karen Oliveto, senior pastor of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, was elected bishop of the church’s Western Division at a conference Friday night in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Rappers and pastors, spoken word poets and authors appealed to thousands of evangelicals gathered around the Washington Monument to recommit to prayer and hope at a time of intense racial and political polarization.

Vision impairment that’s easy to fix in rich countries can be life sentences in most of the world. These volunteer doctors aim to change that.