The White House announced plans to provide close to $2 billion in funding to faith-based and community groups for health and humanitarian assistance in more than a dozen countries, drawing praise from groups receiving funding and criticism from others for its emphasis on funding Christian organizations.
A bipartisan bill to prevent demonstrations near houses of worship was introduced in both the House of Representatives and Senate Thursday (Aug. 6) and has already won the support of several Jewish organizations.
The Arizona State Supreme Court ruled that church leaders do not need to report cases of sexual abuse, disclosed during confessions, to authorities, in a lawsuit brought against a man who confessed to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bishops to sexually abusing his daughter.
Three Houston mothers are suing to stop displaying the Ten Commandments in Texas public school classrooms, arguing it violates the state’s religious freedom law and a voter-approved parental rights amendment.
A 20-foot-tall white cross still stands in front of the Center Point, Texas, fire station, the words “Letters to Heaven” written just above a mail slot at its base to accept notes addressed to campers and counselors killed in the flood at Camp Mystic last July.
Scott Beck has long hoped the faith-based tech company he founded in 2013 would help churches and other Christian groups harness technology to spread God’s word and help save the world.
Evangelical pastor Saeed Abedini was once an international symbol of a Christian being persecuted for his faith. Now, he’s been accused in a lawsuit of
In the face of an accelerating U.S. pressure campaign, deteriorating public utilities and economic inefficiency, Cuba’s communist government on Thursday (June 18) announced sweeping economic reforms, the largest privatization since before Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959.
Samaritan’s Purse, the Christian international humanitarian relief organization, recently airlifted an Ebola treatment unit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in response to the outbreak of the deadly disease.
Jerry “Trey” Falwell III, a former Liberty University vice president and the son of Becki and Jerry Falwell Jr., filed a lawsuit in April against
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