The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday (April 25) to restructure the worldwide denomination to give each region greater equity in tailoring church life to its own customs and traditions.
Announcing the results of a new Global Flourishing Study, a consortium of scholars and pollsters led by Gallup said they found links between religiosity and people’s satisfaction with their lives.
Religious churn has been a key fixture of U.S. religion for a long time, but a new survey of changes in American religion finds that motion is not so much a swirling but a one-way stream heading out.
In the past few years, evangelicals, who make up about 30% of Brazil’s population, have taken a new approach, working to short-circuit the festival with displays of Christian faith.
A $60 million museum that showcased the Bible’s role in American history will shut down less than three years after it opened.
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the hymn’s popular English translation, Grammy-winning Christian singer-songwriter Matt Redman has teamed up with 15 other artists and released a new version,
Southern Baptists such as Andrew T. Walker, a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, have called on the SBC to adopt an official resolution addressing IVF at its next convention later this year.
Converts who have fled Iran are finding it much harder to prove their faith once they cross the border.
Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention face a pair of new lawsuits that accuse the SBC of covering up sexual abuse in local churches.
Religious Americans are continuing to give to their houses of worship and other causes with money and in-kind donations despite rising costs for daily living, a new report shows.
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