Since 1961, those who claim no religious affiliation have risen to nearly a quarter of the population. Yet 91 percent of the members of the U.S. Congress claim to be Christians. However, the make up of congressional affiliation has changed…

“Absolutely I feel it works,” Trump told an interviewer about his views on torture. “Have I spoken to people at the top levels and people that have seen it work? I haven’t seen it work. But I think it works….

Norway’s Lutheran Church voted in favor of new ceremonial language that will allow its pastors to conduct same-sex marriages, bringing it into line with several other mainstream Protestant denominations abroad. Last April the annual conference of the Church backed the…

One of the campaign promises that Donald Trump made was to restore and protect religious liberty. And it appears that he is about to fulfill that promise. The Trump administration has circulated a draft executive order on religious liberty that…

Though evangelicals aren’t that excited about Donald Trump’s irreligious past, they are very happy for what he is doing to help them with their agendas and issues. At last week’s prayer breakfast, Trump reaffirmed his campaign promise to give them…

President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court is seen as a relatively young conservative justice that would help sway the court to a more conservative bent, and perhaps overturn Roe v. Wade on abortion and Obergefell v. Hodges upholding gay…

True to his method of getting attention, Pope Francis prepared an ad to be shown during the American football championship game called the Super Bowl. The ad, a first for the Vatican, aired at the game on a massive jumbo…

US Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) the first Muslim U.S. Representative said President Donald Trump’s 90-day ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries is “a religiously based ban.” He was being interviewed on the TV show Face the Nation. “If…

Religiously motivated laws are trying to creep into public policymaking. They are not “sharia” based on the Koran. They are Christian policies and they are coming from the White House, which wants to make it easier for conservative Christians to…

In the name of protecting religious freedom, U.S. President Donald Trump again vowed to repeal the Johnson Amendment. Speaking at his first National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday February 2, Trump said that religious freedom is “under threat.” The Johnson amendment…

In order to defend himself against his critics, Pope Francis accused some Christians of having too much concern for the Ten Commandments, saying they suffer from “cowardliness,” and warning that such people become “paralyzed” and unable to “go forward.” Popes…

Scientists have created a human-pig hybrid in what is called “a milestone study” that raises the prospect of being able to grow human organs inside animals for use in transplants. This is the first time that embryos combining two large,…