A study conducted by the Pew Research Center has found that there has been a significant drop in the proportion of Americans who believe the Biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ.
A Christian student group has filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa after the club was kicked off campus for requiring its leaders to pledge to uphold core values, including avoiding "sexual immorality."
Pentagon has announced that it will begin enlistment of transgender recruits on Jan. 1, amid ongoing legal battles challenging President Donald Trump's order banning transgender individuals from the military.
Two biomedical research companies in California have been shut down after admitting their involvement in the illegal sales of aborted baby body parts.
There has been a significant decline in President Donald Trump's job approval rating since February, and it is most noticeable among white evangelical Protestants, a group that proved to be his core voting bloc in the 2016 elections.
Famed shock rocker Alice Cooper will be taking the stage as King Herod in NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar Live!" which will air on Easter Sunday, April 1.
A leading secularist group has raised concerns about cross memorials that were created by high school students in Georgia as part of a city effort to honor local military veterans.
A federal judge has rejected an injunction request by the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington D.C. to post Christmas advertisements on Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) buses.
A federal judge has ruled against three Texas churches seeking disaster relief funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to rebuild sanctuaries damaged during Hurricane Harvey.
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood's alleged involvement in the sale of aborted baby body parts.
A Catholic church in Massachusetts has put up a Christmas nativity scene that lists the death tolls of some of the worst mass shootings in the U.S.
Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Maggie Ellis has announced plans to overturn a rule protecting judges who decline to officiate same-sex weddings because of their religious beliefs.
A law that came into effect this year gives the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) increased powers to restrict religious practice even as several Christians remain imprisoned for carrying out their ministries, according to an advocacy group’s new report. In the past year freedom of religion in China has deteriorated with the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress coming into effect on July1.
Several pastors affiliated with the Calvary Chapel movement have publicly criticized Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s affirmation of women serving as pastors, following an announcement by Char Brodersen at the church that once served as the movement’s flagship congregation. The Calvary Chapel Association (CCA), through its Heartland Regional Team, reaffirmed its opposition to appointing women as pastors or elders.
A 20-year-old Egyptian Christian was reportedly killed by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Libya after resisting repeated demands to abandon his Christian faith and embrace Islam while in captivity. Milad Malak, a Coptic Christian, was the only Christian among a group of Egyptian workers abducted by ISIS fighters, according to Open Doors, which cited accounts from two Muslim companions who were later released.
Three students were killed and six others injured when Myanmar's military launched an airstrike and drone assault on a Christian Bible school in Karen State. The attack occurred Tuesday in Day Bu Noh village in Hpapun District, an area largely populated by Christian Karen communities. Military aircraft reportedly dropped bombs before armed drones struck the village, with one exploding directly above the Bible school.