Curated

World Vision, one of the world’s largest Christian humanitarian aid organizations, said it has “no reason … at this time” to believe the claims of Israeli security officials.

The Pope has already stood by John Paul II’s rejection of female priesthood. So if the study group finds that in the early church the office of deacon was intended as the prelude to priesthood, then what?

Non-Catholic clergy have experienced significant increases in income even as their work weeks declined by more than 15 percent in recent decades, according to a major new study of clergy compensation.

Lincoln Mullen, a George Mason University professor, has put the Bible and 11 million pages of old newspapers into a computer and mashed the two together.

A Baptist preacher has become the unlikely leader of a social media movement that’s inspired Zimbabweans to protest against their authoritarian ruler and the collapsed economy.

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was convicted in 2001 of murdering Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, all 14, and Denise McNair, 11, and sentenced to life in prison.

First ECFA survey of church governance trends reveals which boards are most effective.

Politics trumps God for most Americans when it comes to conversations with their friends.

Pope Francis has created a commission to study the possibility of allowing women to serve as deacons in the Catholic church.

Knowing many of my pro-life friends feel torn between an unpopular but highly qualified pro-choice candidate in Hillary Clinton and an incompetent narcissist who poses a unique threat to American democracy in Donald Trump, I’d like to make a proposal.

“There are violent Catholics.” said Pope Francis. “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.”

In previous U.S. elections, polls consistently showed that a person’s level of religiosity was one of the biggest predictors in how they would vote. That correlation appears to be weakening.