PARENTS are stepping up pressure on the Education Department to end religious education in state schools amid claims it is making children isolated and fearful.

A Christian group has been banned from claiming that God can heal illnesses on its website and in leaflets.

Three bishops will this week lead calls for the Church of England to make a public statement standing up for the right of Christians to wear a cross.

A North Carolina woman read the Bible to her attacker for an hour and a half after he slashed her throat before the man apologized and left.

A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.

In 2009, Julea Ward, a teacher and an evangelical Christian, was studying for a master’s degree in counseling at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

A court in Washington is poised to decide whether pharmacists should be forced to violate their religious beliefs at the command of the state or go out of business.

Presi­dent Obama drew on the Bible and his interpretation of the Christian faith Thurs­day to deliver a sharp critique of his chief Republican rival’s economic program, speaking at a forum that in the past has been largely free of electoral politics.

The gay marriage debate in Parliament will be pushed back to later in the year to give advocates for change more time to garner enough support to have legislation for same sex marriage passed.

FORMER Australian of the Year and CEO of Child Wise Bernadette McMenamin has rejected calls for a ban on smacking and said it would leave parents thinking they lived in a nanny state.

A Chinese Christian leader sentenced to two years of “reeducation through labour” has been released early from detention, the China Aid Association (CAA) reports.

ALMOST anybody can get help for anything from psychotherapists in this country except apparently gays who do not want to be gay.

A divorce can never be good for children no matter how amicable it is, a study has revealed.

The dispute in the Church of England over welfare reform intensified last night as the former Archbishop of Canterbury was dismissed as a “Thatcherite yesterday’s man” by a prominent cleric.

A couple from Texas who moved to a violence-plagued area of northern Mexico to run a Baptist church were found slain at their ransacked home, their children said.