Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, spoke to Congress this week regarding the United States\' global health fund, encouraging the U.S. government not to cut funding to certain programs, such as AIDS funding, for foreign countries.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee announced on Tuesday that he will be entering the 2016 presidential race.
The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the recent shooting at a Muhammad cartoon competition in Garland, Texas over the weekend that left one security guard injured and the two gunmen dead.
2016 presidential hopeful Ted Cruz recently spoke out regarding the protests in Baltimore, Maryland over the death of Freddie Gray, saying that he blames President Barack Obama for \"inflaming racial tensions.\"
The chief prosecutor for Baltimore, Maryland announced Friday that the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray has been ruled a homicide, and six police officers will face criminal charges that include second-degree murder and manslaughter.
The death toll following the massive earthquake in Nepal has reached over 6,000 as rescue teams continue to search the rubble in major cities and villages in the hopes of finding survivors.
A Pakistani court sentenced 10 men to 25 years in prison each this week for their connection in the 2012 shooting of teenager Malala Yousafzai, who has become an outspoken proponent for children's education around the world.
Over 22 hours after the devastating 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal last weekend, the Nepalese Army reportedly recovered a five-month-old baby from the rubble of a collapsed building.
Residents in Baltimore, Maryland are reportedly demanding that a young protester be freed after he was arrested on live television this week.
The city of Baltimore\'s recently-enacted nightly curfew reportedly made for a peaceful commute Wednesday morning as protesters obeyed the curfew from 10 p.m. Tuesday to 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Nigeria\'s government on Tuesday claimed that it had rescued nearly 300 women and girls from a Boko Haram stronghold in the country\'s northeast Borno State.
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.