The Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions will clash on NFL Monday Night Football tonight as the regular season moves towards its ultimate conclusion on New Year's next week.
For the longest time, the Catholic Church has been against contraceptives, considering them sinful, but during his trip to Latin America, Pope Francis appeared to open the door to compromise in the face of the Zika virus afflicting the region.
The State Capitol of Mississippi passed a bill on Wednesday allowing church members to undergo gun or firearms training, as well as bring their weapons to church in order to protect the congregation.
The Church of England has been losing members for quite some time and according to a new report that rate of decline may last longer than what most people would hope.
Nigerian women and girls who have been freed from the terrorist group Boko Haram are returning to their communities after being missing for months or even years, but not all are receiving a warm welcome.
The leaders of France's two main Protestant umbrella organizations have agreed to create a standing forum for dialogue and cooperation, following a two-day meeting both described as unprecedented. Delegations from the executive boards of the Protestant Federation of France, known by its French initials FPF, and the National Council of Evangelicals in France, or CNEF, met Sept. 3-4 at the Domaine du Lazaret in Sète.
Evangelicals in the United Kingdom are “younger, more ethnically diverse, and more likely to be male than the wider population,” according to a new report from the Evangelical Alliance UK. “Adults under 35 are the age group most likely to identify as Evangelical and to hold Evangelical beliefs,” the report reads. “Approximately a third of the most committed Evangelicals come from ethnically diverse backgrounds, while an estimated 60% of Evangelicals are male.”
President Donald Trump has nominated Cissie Graham Lynch to serve as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, a State Department position focused on promoting religious liberty abroad. The White House announced that the nomination of Jane Lynch, better known as Cissie Graham Lynch, had been sent to the Senate for consideration.
American Bible Society research suggests that Christians who are more active in their faith and Bible reading are less likely to struggle with forgiving themselves and others. Overall, 29% of respondents said “It is really hard for me to accept myself once I’ve messed up” was “true of me,” while 56% said it was “not true of me.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury has withdrawn an interfaith award given to Pakistani Muslim cleric Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi after past remarks praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced, raising questions in Pakistan about why he was recommended for the honor by Church of Pakistan’s Moderator Bishop Azad Marshall.