Curated

The data signals a significant departure from the overarching views of the evangelical community among younger generations.

Cardinal George Pell, a top adviser to Pope Francis, took a leave of absence as the Vatican’s financial chief Thursday to fight criminal charges in his native Australia that alleged he committed sexual assault years ago.

Officials say Arkansas’ new Ten Commandments monument was destroyed by someone driving a vehicle into it less than 24 hours after the monument was placed on state Capitol grounds.

Two decades before she took office as the first woman president in Baylor University’s 172-year history, Linda Livingstone helped break down a different barrier.

Almost half the nearly 1 million Orthodox Christians in the United States today are converts, the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America reported in 2015. The majority of these married into the church. But a…

A nonprofit has calculated that every religious congregation in the U.S. — Christian or otherwise — would have to raise an additional $714,000 every year for the next 10 years to make up for the 2018 budget cuts President Trump…

I’m a liberal. He’s a conservative. But we found common ground in the Bible and the idea that nobody is the stereotype we believe they are.

I can hold this paradox without question: I never would choose cancer, but I wouldn’t trade this experience. The richness of God’s infusion into our lives more than compensated for the agony.

It was important for churches to have something to put into the collection plate, and it was important that it be cash that people actually possessed — not a promise to pay someday on their credit card accounts.

The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., is calling on priests there to deny Holy Communion and funeral rites to people in same-sex unions unless they show “some signs of repentance” for their relationships before death.

The new rule is part of a 10-step screening process first tested in a pilot project launched last year.

Franklin followed his father into the pulpit and succeeded him as head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. But Franklin’s temperament and tone — more uncompromising than Billy’s in his prime and later years — are closer to his mother’s.