Lawyers are defending an Ohio pastor facing 18 criminal charges for housing the homeless in his church overnight—and he receives a new charge for every day the church remains open, he says.

A notable author is facing criticism and allegations of “bigotry” for describing the Bible as a “work of fiction” and “fertile ground for hypocrisy.”  In a Jan. 11 post on X, author Joyce Carol Oates declared...

Pope Francis said this week he believes in hell but likes to think of it as “empty” because of God’s great mercy...“I like to think of hell as empty; I hope it is,” he told the show’s host...

Former President Donald Trump now owns the record for the largest margin of victory in the history of contested Iowa Republican caucuses, more than doubling the previous mark.

...Early entrance polling presented by CNN found Trump seeing support from 55 percent of evangelicals. Compare that to 24 percent garnered by Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley’s 12 percent support.

In the lead-up to Monday’s Iowa Caucus returns on MSNBC, network host Joy Reid attacked so-called white Christians as Donald Trump was on the verge of an overwhelming win in the Hawkeye State.

Former DNC chairman Howard Dean claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Christians who voted for former President Donald Trump “have abandoned any pretense of being ethical.”

A Minnesota correctional facility abruptly canceled a Christian rehabilitation program for teaching inmates about manhood and masculinity through a Biblical worldview. Now volunteers have filed a lawsuit...

The Scottish parliament will be hearing an address from pagans on Tuesday for the first time in its nation's history. Referring to it as a "historic" day for witches, shamans, and druids, a four-minute address...

Two Palestinian terrorists killed a woman and injured 17 other civilians in a terror attack in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana on Monday, ramming cars into pedestrians and stabbing others.

The “March on Washington for Gaza” on Saturday boiled over into violence at the White House, as thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators stormed the security fence and forced the evacuation of...

Taiwan on Sunday condemned what it said were “fallacious comments” by China following the self-governing island's presidential and parliamentary election the previous day.

Pope Francis met with a group of Marxists in the Vatican on Wednesday and exhorted them not to let up in their pursuit of dialogue with Christians.

...According to The Guardian, thousands of protesters swarmed Washington DC on Saturday “to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to protest US aid to Israel.”

A Christian teaching assistant in the United Kingdom who claimed he was fired for street preaching in his free time won the equivalent of a nearly $9,000 legal settlement in a case against his former employer.

The population of Israel is expected to pass 10 million in 2024, including a growing number of Christians. ...Statistics show that Israel had some 9.842 million citizens at the end of 2023, an increase of 1.9%...

...Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Scorsese said he wants to strip religion of its negative accretions and go back to the “original impulse” that makes spirituality attractive.

A persecution watchdog group has published a new report highlighting the ongoing persecution of Evangelical church leaders, and Protestant Christians generally, in predominantly Catholic Mexico.