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A recent ruling in Alabama declared frozen embryos to be children. The ruling raises important ethical issues about in vitro fertilization.

Eight pieces of legislation under the regionalization plan would reshape the denomination, creating four equal conferences—Africa, Europe, the Philippines, and the United States—each able to customize practices to fit local needs.

Gospel singer Kirk Franklin won his 20th Grammy award, hip hop artist LeCrae his third and fourth, and pastor and singer Tye Tribbett his third.

The report also raises the alarm on a degrading situation for Christians amid attacks on Christian schools and hospitals in India.

Josh Newell, executive director of Jesus Film Project, said he views animation as a fitting means to speak to younger generations about the life of Jesus.

Clergy resource groups like One America Movement and the Colossian Forum find pastors are seeking ideas for how to preach in ways that heal, rather than widen, congregations’ social and political divides.

“Stop thinking that the best use of your time is to advocate for something in politics, or advocate for something far away,” said Seth Kaplan, author of Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One ZIP Code at a Time.

‘We wanted to bridge a gap’ said NAE’s director of racial justice and reconciliation collaborative.

Three dozen churches in the Western North Carolina Conference have now agreed to leave under the denomination's exit plan. They will formally exit in November.

The latest report from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research’s five-year study of the impact of the pandemic on America’s churches shows increased income, lower conflict, but more questioning of vocation by clergy.

Brian Houston, co-founder of the now global Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, had been charged with concealing a serious indictable offense of another person.

The goal of the University of Southern California colleagues working in the school’s Information Sciences Institute is to target ‘very low-resource languages that are not even in the top 500.’

Yeshiva University in New York has launched a master’s degree program intended specifically for Christian students who want to learn more about Judaism. It’s part of a growing number of interfaith academic collaborations at U.S. Christian and Jewish schools.

Many U.S. religious minorities said the ruling was a much-needed corrective to the challenges they face in balancing their work with their sincerely held religious practices.

Prompted by numerous recent sexual abuse scandals in American churches, a faith-based nonprofit shifts its education and support focus to North America.

Delegates affirmed a decision to expel two Southern Baptist churches, including Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif., because they employed women as pastors.

Ahead of June meetings for the Southern Baptist Convention and the Evangelical Covenant Church, Religion �㽶��Ƶ Service reports on two prominent individual congregations either campaigning to be reinstated or voluntarily leaving before being formally expelled.

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, the head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, traveled to Kyiv on June 5 as a representative of Pope Francis.

Purchased by the American Friends of the ANU, Museum of the Jewish People, Codex Sassoon is one of the earliest and most complete copies of the biblical text.

The success of Keller's Redeemer Presbyterian Church in the heart of New York City as well as his bestselling books made him one of the most influential evangelicals in the U.S.

For almost 50 years, Habitat for Humanity has inspired people from different backgrounds—who often can’t agree on anything—to work together for their neighbors’ benefit.

White’s Chapel plans to invite others to join the Methodist Collegiate Church once its disaffiliation is approved by Central Texas United Methodists next month.

As United Methodist bishops from around the world meet this week in Chicago, they anticipate ‘reconfigured boundaries, reformed agencies, and a revised work plan to achieve our mission.’