Religion Today Archives

In the week since a federal judge overturned Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage, the number of weddings in the state has skyrocketed, shattering...

The Christmas season is a tribute to the triumph of American prosperity.

Looking back on the top news stories of the year gives us both reasons to despair and reasons to hope.

Patriarch Phil Robertson of the immensely popular TV reality show Duck Dynasty gave an interview to GQ magazine. And now, he has been put on...

Nine in 10 Americans will celebrate Christmas this year, but a new poll shows that increasing numbers see the holiday as more tinsel than gospel...

Fueling debates over marriage and religious freedom, a federal judge declared on Dec. 13 Utah laws criminalizing polygamy are unconstitutional,...

The UN and the Kenyan government report a vexing problem: The ‘demand’ for children is too high

Megachurch founder Isaac Hunter, who is son of another megachurch pastor Joel Hunter, was found dead in an apparent suicide, according to the...

“The fact is that anti-Christian persecution is spiking well beyond the Middle East. And it is spreading to countries known for their relative...

An American teacher killed in Benghazi strived to ‘treasure Christ above all things.’

President Jacob Zuma announced that civil rights icon Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela died Thursday evening after a lengthy illness. He was 95.

At prayer healing services in some Pentecostal churches, pastors invite people infected with HIV to come forward for a public healing, after which...

A missionary has been killed and several churches set ablaze in attacks by Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram in neighboring Cameroon.

Aid agencies estimate that up to 2 million children may be at increased risk for trafficking in the wake of the disaster.

Gratitude is more than listing things for which we are, or should be, thankful. It is an attitude combining thankfulness and humility from which...