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Franklin Graham is abandoning the Republican Party over the move by Congress to pass a budget that provided funding for Planned Parenthood.

Pope Francis has given final clearance for Mother Teresa — called “the saint of the gutters” for her work with the poor in India — to become an...

A half-dozen Republican presidential candidates hit all the hot buttons Sunday (Oct. 18) while speaking to an influential audience: Religious...

If approved, the decision would represent a historic breakthrough for the Catholic Church, and Catholic women, by giving them access to the kinds...

It turns out that, even as he was preaching a message of unity and not picking fights, the pope met secretly with an icon of the culture wars: Kim...

Pope Francis began the final day of his U.S. visit by meeting privately with five adults abused as children by clergy, teachers or family members.

The undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood have rocked the nation with their depiction of the selling of aborted baby body parts, but that...

In a statement on Wednesday, Pope Francis said the church must welcome divorced and remarried Catholics.

Russell Moore will interview Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush in Nashville next month in front of a sold-out crowd of 13,000 evangelical...

Pope Francis has approved the first-ever system for judging, and possibly deposing, bishops who fail to protect children from abusive clerics.

Everyone wants Congress to stop fighting and get working, and that includes Pope Francis, a top adviser said Wednesday (April 29) in a preview of...

Dozens of Christian leaders have issued a call to civil authorities to preserve “the unique meaning of marriage in the law” — but also to “protect...

Pope Francis on Monday (Feb. 16) denounced the brutal slayings of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya by militants linked to the Islamic State, saying...

An alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelical Protestants is set to issue a manifesto against gay marriage that calls same-sex unions “a...

Catholic leaders wrapped up their two-week Vatican summit on the challenges of modern family life without reaching a consensus on a number of...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush were not invited to a major gathering of social conservatives in Washington last...

William Donohue of the Catholic League announced that his organization would not take part in next year’s popular celebration of Irish-American...

More than 50 mainly Catholic and Protestant leaders are telling President Obama to halt American airstrikes and pursue solely peaceful means to...