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Evangelical pro-life groups met with the director of the White House’s Faith-Based Office Tuesday for an “honest” discussion on how to reduce abortion in America.

Conservative evangelical groups will meet with the director of the White House Faith-Based Office next Tuesday to discuss the need for reducing abortion in the country.

Less than one percent of the youngest adult generation in America has a biblical worldview, found a new study examining the changes in worldview among Christians and the overall U.S. population.

Christians nationwide are joining together for a national day of prayer and fasting for America on Wednesday.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association plans to lay off 10 percent of its staff, or 55 employees, an official at the organization said this week.

There is one law that all major religions share, President Barack Obama contended on Thursday. That is, to love thy neighbors.

A Christian anti-poverty group launched its letters campaign on Monday to gather thousands of letters from churches across the nation asking Congress to make U.S. foreign assistance more effective in serving the world’s poor and hungry people.

WASHINGTON – Thousands gathered on Thursday in the nation’s capital for the annual March for Life rally that seeks to turn attention back to the abortion issue following the media lovefest that was President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Physical abuse by one’s spouse is not a biblical reason for divorce, says a pastor at Saddleback Church in southern California.

A pro-life billboard declaring "Abortion Hurts Women" was erected alongside one of the busiest bridges in the country this week ahead of the annual Walk for Life event.

American churches have a more informal worship style and ethnically diverse congregation than ten years ago, found a recent study on religious congregation trends.

The head of a ministry that trains Christian leaders worldwide offered advice to business leaders who need to make tough decisions to keep their companies afloat during the difficult economic times.

For weeks the world’s attention has been focused on Mumbai, India, where coordinated terrorist attacks left nearly 200 people dead, including many foreign visitors. But some are hoping that the world will not forget to look at another terrorist attack occurring in India that has been less reported.

World leaders need to make radical changes to the global economic system so that it is more just to the poor and protects the environment, said the world’s largest ecumenical body ahead the U.N. International Conference on Financing for Development that began Saturday.

Close to one out of every eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately in 2007, a report by the Agriculture Department, released earlier this week, revealed.

Southern Baptist churches are being recruited to join a massive 12-year long, grassroots evangelism plan to share the Gospel with every person in North America by 2020.

A Billy Graham Rapid Response Team of crisis-trained chaplains was deployed this week to Southern California where “mega” blazes of fire have destroyed more than 800 homes and thousands of acres of land in the last few days.

The most well-known pro-family group announced this week that it eliminated 202 jobs to counterbalance the drop in donations caused by the sharp economic downturn.

An anonymous donor gave a huge sum of $50 million to Wycliffe Bible Translators this week making it possible to translate Scripture for the last people groups still without the Bible in their native tongue more quickly.

Not only did African-American and Hispanic voters vote overwhelmingly for now president-elect Barack Obama, but they did so with nearly no discrepancy between born-again and non-born again voters, a new survey shows.

Christian right leader Dr. James Dobson said he is currently in a grieving process over the presidential election result, which he said is a huge setback for the pro-life movement.

The diverse Christian body has, as expected, responded to news of Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential election with mixed reaction – some congratulating, others wanting to put aside differences to work together, and still others insisting on challenging him when he takes office.

Christians across the nation began a 24-hour prayer event Monday afternoon, the eve of the historic U.S. presidential election.

It’s not just about four or eight years in office, but the next president will play a key role in the appointment of a number of Supreme Court justices that will leave an “indelible” mark on history, said a prominent Christian lawyer.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the political darling of many Christian conservative voters, said her faith and God have been mocked during the presidential campaign – and there isn’t much she can do about it.