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Physicist Stephen Hawking made headlines this week for taking on arguably the most influential scientist in human history, Sir Isaac Newton.

An interreligious organization based in Chicago is urging people of faith around the world to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to “quench the fires of hatred and violence.”

Lady Gaga, a.k.a. the artist formerly known as Stefani Germanotta, is undeniably a musical force to be reckoned with. At least for the moment.

It’s deja vu all over again in Washington as the midterm elections rapidly approach and all signs point to an electoral route of the party in power.

With eyes closed and bodies swaying to the sound of Christian rock music, the crowd gathered at the California State Capitol building Saturday appeared entranced in another world as they invoked the name of God to save the state and the nation.

Two-thirds of New Yorkers, including some who support the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero, say leaders of the project should find a location further from the 9/11 crash site.

An Israeli man accused of planting a homemade bomb that almost killed the son of a Messianic Jewish pastor in Ariel, Israel has been declared competent to stand trial.

A lot of people are asking me what I thought of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally.

Members of Capt. Dale Goetz’s church back in Colorado Springs are mourning the loss of the U.S. Army chaplain following his death earlier this week.

More than a month since floods started ravaging Pakistan’s northwest region, relief workers on the field say the emergency will “get worse before it gets better.”

Christians across America are being called on to unite in prayer and fasting for the nation from Sept. 20 to Oct. 30 as America faces “unprecedented challenges.”

Tearfund’s disaster management director of has been appointed as the U.K.-based humanitarian agency’s new international director, according to an announcement Thursday.

Southern California megachurch pastor Phil Hotsenpiller will be hosting a three-day seminar over the Labor Day weekend to discuss theological perspectives of current events and their relation to the “last days.”

Capt. Dale Goetz, a Baptist pastor from South Dakota, is the first U.S. Army chaplain killed in action in 40 years, the military announced Thursday.

Not many prominent conservative evangelicals have weighed in on the controversial effort to establish a mosque and Islamic cultural center near New York City’s Ground Zero, and even fewer have voiced support for the project.

Most churches would agree that any segregation arising from racial or economic bigotry runs contrary to the nature of the gospel and should not be tolerated. But there’s another kind of segregation, perhaps more subtle, that many churches today have unapologetically embraced.

The most promising avenues of stem-cell research are using cells derived from adult cells, not from embryos. The absolute determination of some researchers to destroy human embryos cannot be explained by scientific determination alone.

Southern Baptist leaders are hailing the nomination of Pastor Kevin Ezell for the post of president at the North American Mission Board.

The head of a global church body sent a message Thursday to negotiators of the Middle East peace talks in Washington to stress the concerns of Palestinian Christians.

With a 90 percent success rate, multisites have become one of the more popular strategies for church growth in the last decade, a new survey reveals.