RELIGION

Jewish and Christian clergy have taken an active role in protesting what one advocacy group has called the ‘most dangerous’ session of the Missouri Legislature for the LGBTQ community it has seen in years.

Mr. Ryan served as director of a Justice Department unit designated to find and expel anyone in the United States who had assisted the Nazis.

The Child Abuse Reporting Expansion Act, a bill making its way through the New York legislature, would make clergy mandated reporters.

This year’s Super Bowl will feature a $20 million pair of pro-Jesus ads promoting the idea that Jesus ‘gets us,’ part of the larger ‘He Gets Us’ campaign. Organizers hope to spend a billion dollars in the next three years to redeem Jesus’ brand.

For a pope who has prioritized outreach, majority-Catholic South Sudan has long represented an ultimate test in the church’s ability to help in nation-building.

The pope led the crowd in song and brought the house down with his condemnation of corruption — a scourge in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pope Francis's first stop in his visit to Africa was the DRC, where he gave Mass to thousands of people in Kinshasa.

While the church is often seen as a potential stabilizing force in the heavily Catholic countries, that burden falls principally on Francis's shoulders this week.

Forgiving has mental health benefits, and some educators and mental health professionals think kids could benefit. But some clergy object, saying it's their turf.

Amira Elghawaby, a journalist and human rights advocate, will act as an adviser to Justin Trudeau's government. Muslims in Canada have been targeted in hate-motivated attacks.

The International Foundation, referred to as “the Family,” will no longer run the event. Instead, the newly created National Prayer Breakfast Foundation will manage it.

The pope maintained that gay acts are a sin, but told the Associated Press that the Catholic Church must work to end "unjust" anti-gay laws around the world.

Hunt told a Florida megachurch that false allegations had ruined his life but he still has faith in Jesus.

A recent ruling leaves appellate judges unable to say whether religious broadcasting violates the U.S. Constitution.

A judge dismissed a suit from LGBTQ students who sought to end religious exemptions to a civil rights law they say lets Christian colleges discriminate against them.

Witches urge alternatives to sage amid concern about appropriation and overharvesting

A group of Southern Baptist leaders is working to implement a set of reforms to respond better to reports of sexual abuse.

The sexual assault conviction of the Australian cleric, who was a top adviser to Pope Francis, was overturned after he spent more than a year in prison.