A county government in North Carolina has continued to allow Christian prayers to be said at its meetings, even after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a lower court ruling that declared them unconstitutional.

I increasingly hear people talking about the need to be "Biblically balanced" and I think I'm starting to understand what they mean.

This Thursday, the U.K.'s Prime Minister David Cameron will meet with other world leaders in London to pound out a plan for stability in Somalia. New research from World Vision shows that children in Somalia are already suffering high levels of trauma as a result of the fighting, displacement and ongoing food crisis.

I've been discovering what King Solomon felt like when he wrote Ecclesiastes. Meaningless, meaningless, everything (on earth) is meaningless.

Christian leader Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Seattle, Wash., continues to not shy away from hot-button topics by recently naming the six ways in which the Bible shows that sex is a gift from God.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is reportedly taking a closer look at a bill requiring an ultrasound for women seeking an abortion. A host of liberal bloggers, media pundits and comedians have charged that the bill is akin to "state sponsored rape" because it requires the use of a transvaginal probe. Supporters of the bill claim the rape accusations are "ridiculous" and the bill does not require a transvaginal probe in any event.

Folks, do your college kids know that when it comes to faith, reason is on their side?

Gallup poll shows Santorum ahead of Romney in Arizona; Obama's Christianity questioned; protest against Saudi Arabia in Washington and ESPN fires employee for racism against Jeremy Lin.

We live in an era of unprecedented cynicism, yet we are also blessed to live in a country that forever redefined what it means to dream big. My hat's off to those modern day heroes among us who've dared to take on the odds

Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building here on Sunday (Feb. 19), two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla.

Supporters of California's Proposition 8 that banned same-sex marriage have petitioned the full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to review a split decision handed down by three of its judges two weeks ago. The controversial decision upheld a district court's ruling overturning the ban, potentially paving the way for same-sex marriages in the Golden State.

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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum should stop talking about his faith, according to some pundits. Analysis of a survey conducted last September by Lifeway Research shows, however, that Republican voters prefer candidates who talk about their faith.

The season of Lent begins not only for millions of Catholics by having placed a sign of the cross on their foreheads with ash on Wednesday, but with many Christians in and outside of denominations vowing to mark the season with acts of faith.

A Christian care worker from the U.K. claims that she was discriminated against when she was not allowed accommodations from her employers for her beliefs while her Muslim co-worker was treated differently.

Vanderbilt University, which stirred controversy over deciding to adopt an "all-comers" policy to membership and leadership in campus student organizations, maintains that it shows tolerance for religious organizations.

The involvement of the nation's wealthiest citizens in America's political landscape is nothing new. But now that super PACs are front and center in underwriting political messages in the 2012 elections, such little known names as George Soros, Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess and Harold Simmons are becoming well known in political circles and beyond.

Widely respected preacher and author John Piper asks another tough question to his readers: Why did God let Paul become a murderer before he became one of the most influential figures of Christianity?

President Obama is "particularly weak" on religious freedom issues, presidential candidate Rick Santorum said at a Monday campaign stop in Michigan. In particular, Santorum pointed to Obama's record protecting Christians from persecution around the globe and his use of the phrase "freedom of worship," rather than "freedom of religion."