Religion Today Archives

They come for the Kool-Aid and the coloring, the crafts and the contests -- summer after summer after summer. Indeed, aside from the Christmas...

The White House officially spelled out its reasoning for supporting religious hiring practices of faith-based organizations that some critics have...

Hoping to defuse a controversy over the appointment of a homosexual bishop, the archbishop of Canterbury has issued a statement noting that the...

Missionary efforts to take the gospel to the Islamic world have received a mixed assessment in a major "Time" magazine investigation. The...

Daily briefs of the top news stories impacting Christians around the world. In today's edition: * Urgent Prayer for North Korea Requested in...

Andrew Okhotin flew from New York to Moscow in late March on a quick and joyful mission. He was going to deliver a $48,000 cash gift from American...

An inscription on an ancient stone burial box suggesting it held the remains of James, the brother of Jesus, is a fake, Israeli archaeological...

Spurred on by new and proposed laws allowing gay civil unions, Southern Baptists overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Wednesday (June 18) opposing...

On the eve of their 2003 spring meeting, U.S. Catholic bishops have been thrust back into an unwelcome spotlight, challenging their ability to...

A $25 million movie with the entire dialogue spoken in Latin and Aramaic and no English sub-titles continues to swirl in controversy because of its...

Kenya's attorney general has agreed to hold an inquest into the suspicious death of an American Catholic missionary, Fr. John Kaiser, almost three...

Evangelical leaders meeting at a global AIDS forum issued a statement of conscience Wednesday (June 11) declaring the disease "may be the greatest...

Southern Baptists will gather for their annual mid-June meeting in Phoenix next week, focusing on a new strategy for spiritual renewal of their...

Despite North Korea's status as an international pariah and charter member of President Bush's "axis of evil," a small number of humanitarian...

A year after a rescue mission in the southern Philippines freed Gracia Burnham from Islamic terrorists' clutches, the former hostage is helping...