Faith

L’shanah Tovah to all! That’s Happy New Year! This week marked Rosh Hashanah, or New Year, for the Jewish community. Marking the passage of a time and a new year is important. ...

Danica McKellar, who starred in “The Wonder Years,” said she is now a better parent since becoming a Christian. “Faith guides everything, including parenting,” she says. “For me, my faith journey has ...

More young men than women now are attending religious services. Even “The New York Times” noted the trend, which wrote about Grace Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Waco, Texas. “For the ...

Every year on the first Thursday of October, students all around the country participate in “Bring Your Bible Day,” a nationwide celebration encouraging Christians to publicly practice their faith. Participants are encouraged ...

Pastor Appreciation Month in October is quickly approaching. The National Association of Evangelicals offers an Easy as 1-2-3 Bless Your Pastor program to help churches with ideas on how to bless their pastor, October ...

High school football coach Joe Kennedy is still surprised that God chose him to challenge – and win – a ban on prayer before the U.S. Supreme Court. “I don’t know why ...

BEKASI, Indonesia — At 4:44 a.m., the calls to prayer begin. They come from everywhere, it seems, in a cacophonous variety of tones and pitches. Still, there’s an eerie beauty about the ...

Christian humanitarian organization Help The Persecuted is stepping up its efforts to address the growing physical and spiritual needs of persecuted Christians and other vulnerable communities in Lebanon. The efforts come as ...

The lead singer of the rock band 3 Doors Down paused at a recent concert to tell the audience that God loves them. Before singing the band’s song “Away from the Sun” ...

Many Americans who don’t attend church nevertheless have had connections to a local church in the past. More than six in 10 of those not actively attending today were regular churchgoers in ...

The annual See You at the Pole event will be held at schools across the nation and around the world on September 25. Participation has steadily increased since its humble beginnings. A ...

Arizona street preacher Hans Schmidt is continuing to recover after being shot last November. “It’s a miracle, absolutely a miracle,” he said. “I should not be alive. Realistically, I should be dead. ...

Search for Jesus, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association‘s online evangelism initiative, has reached a significant milestone, with 20 million decisions for Christ since its launch in 2011. The global ministry, now active ...

Now that kids are back in school, Christian parents are concerned with reinforcing their faith in an increasingly secular culture. “How we value, protect and love children reveals the spiritual health of ...

When people think of mission fields, Fantastic Caverns near Springfield probably is not the first place that comes to mind. However, Mark Alexander, a retired Assembly of God missionary, finds it a ...

A British vicar has launched an ambitious campaign to purchase Torsa Island, a remote and picturesque isle located northwest of Glasgow, Scotland. By partnering with Christians around the world to donate as ...

The Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C., reached a major milestone in early September when Gabriel Salstein of Miami became the two-millionth guest. The Salstein family previously visited in 2020, but when ...

Christians get an emotional lift from attending church – but not if they go only a few times a year, a new study reveals. Researchers found that regular weekend church attendance leads ...

Abdu Murray, as a Muslim in the Detroit area in the 1980s, had a favorite target – cultural Christians. “Cultural Christians were abundant,” he said in a recent interview. “They were low-hanging ...

There is always hope for hostages being held in Gaza and elsewhere. A missionary who was held captive by Al-Qaeda for years said God was with him the entire time. Dr Ken ...

Faithful churchgoers have stepped up their giving to make up for attendance declines since the pandemic, a new study from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found. In “Finances and Faith: A ...

More than half of respondents to a recent poll by Religion News Service, including 67 percent of millennials, said they plan to pray before voting on Election Day. A majority (58 percent) ...

As students returned to colleges nationwide last month, some were unsure what to expect with headlines about pro-Hamas protests. But something good has happened. Revivals at two public universities have broken out ...

More than 30 members of the Carson-Newman University football team in Jefferson City, Tenn., recently were baptized in a campus creek. Carson-Newman is a Christian liberal arts university affiliated with the Tennessee ...

The pandemic was especially challenging for Orthodox churches, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses, and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice. A new study reveals that Orthodox ...