People often claim that famous nonbelievers had a deathbed conversion to Christianity. It happened again after the death last week of physicist Stephen Hawking, who said he did not believe in God.
For the 16th year in a row, North Korea tops the list of 50 countries ranked for the worst persecution of Christians in the world, according to OpenDoors USA.
For the second year in a row, President Trump and his conservative evangelical supporters topped the list of the 10 most important religion news stories of the year.
The Field Hospital: Five minutes from here, the landscape is all ash and ruin. But inside this small chapel, there is a kaleidoscope of stained-glass light and a single man sitting bathed in that light.
Within hours of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds, mourners and the merely curious started creating and visiting a spontaneous memorial.
On Monday (Oct. 2), President Donald Trump spoke to a nation still reeling from the worst mass shooting in modern American history. Over 50 people were killed and hundreds injured.
Over the weekend, the battle over monuments to controversial figures extended to California, where a statue of a Catholic saint, Fr. Junipero Serra, was vandalized in Los Angeles.