Santa Barbara mass murder suspect Elliot Rodger emailed a 137-page manifesto – with a detailed plan on how he would carry out deadly killings as revenge for rejection by women – to his parents and several others, and stabbed three UCSB students in hi..
Pennsylvania's Republican Gov. Tom Corbett decided not to challenge a federal judge's ruling overturning his state's same-sex marriage ban after an "immense struggle" due to "his religious beliefs based on his Catholic upbringing and teachings," an a..
Speaking at a literature festival in Wales, British atheist professor Richard Dawkins admitted that while he surely doesn't believe in the supernatural elements of Christianity, he wouldn't mind being called "a secular Christian."
All the 44 dioceses of the Church of England have voted to approve ordination of women as bishops, and the change in the denomination's centuries-old practice is now just one step away. The final vote is scheduled for July.
The suspect who killed six people and injured 13 others near the University of California, Santa Barbara Friday night was identified as a 22-year-old mentally disturbed man, Elliot Rodger, who videotaped his desire to "slaughter" women for rejecting ..
A gunman sprayed bullets at people late Friday, killing at least six in a drive-by shooting before being found dead from a gunshot wound in his car near the University of California, Santa Barbara. The county sheriff called it "a planned mass murder"..
Pope Francis arrived in Jordon Saturday afternoon, beginning his three-day tour of the Holy Land accompanied by a rabbi and a Muslim cleric from his home country of Argentina. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has urged that the ..
Robert P. George, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, has urged the Obama administration to designate more countries, particularly Syria and Pakistan, as "Countries of Particular Concern" due to their "worst religious ..
Former Malaysian prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad accused America's Central Intelligence Agency of withholding information on the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which has been missing for more than two months.
As a federal judge is scheduled to issue his ruling Monday on a constitutional challenge to Oregon's same-sex marriage ban, officials are prepared to issue marriage licenses immediately if a stay is not put on the decision. The state is not defending..
At least five people were killed Sunday when a suspected car bomb exploded in a predominantly Christian area in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Islamist terror group Boko Haram is likely to be blamed.
President Obama is "madder than hell" over allegations of inadequate medical care for veterans but he will make sure that the problems are fixed, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday.
About a dozen billboards that are part of an atheist campaign sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation have come up in Northeast Ohio, showcasing local nonbelievers and urging others to "come out of the closet."
Christian pop singer Rebecca St. James is praising God that wildfires "miraculously" stopped just feet from her home in Southern California, but she is concerned about some of her neighbors who have lost their homes.
The Utah Supreme Court on Friday night ordered a temporary halt to orders by several district courts that require the state's health department to issue birth certificates in same-sex parent adoptions.
Terry O'Neill, president of National Organization for Women, writes in an editorial that the "heartbreak of infant mortality" can be prevented with "abortion care," or in other words, if babies are killed before they die.
WaterBrook Multnomah, which has published numerous evangelical bestsellers, has resigned from the National Religious Broadcasters over Matthew Vines' controversial book God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships..
A Christian mother in Sudan, who is pregnant with a second child and has been sentenced to 100 lashes and death on charges of apostasy and adultery, has a long legal battle ahead even as her wheelchair-bound husband says his hope lies only in his pra..
A minuscule copy of the Bible that traveled to the moon with an astronaut on an Apollo space mission in the 1970s is expected to sell for about $60,000 at an auction in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday.
Atheist parents and students wanted the Pledge of Allegiance banned in schools in Massachusetts because it contains the phrase "under God," but the state's highest court has ruled that reciting it does not violate the commonwealth's constitution or l..