With less than two weeks before “Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day,” cancer-stricken Christopher Hitchens is encouraging believers to hold off on praying for him. more >>

The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said Monday that a Florida church’s plan to burn Qurans on Sept. 11 could be detrimental to American troops overseas. more >>

A U.S. Muslim group decided to help Pakistani flood victims through a Christian humanitarian aid agency, the latter group reported Tuesday. more >>

The creators of faith-based film "To Save A Life" launched on Monday a weeklong campaign aimed at touching one million lives. more >>

A respected Cuban church leader who was unexpectedly arrested and tried in court last week has been cleared of all charges, reported a Christian human rights group Monday. more >>

Severe flooding across the Sahel region of West Africa has brought fresh misery to communities already suffering their worst food crisis in decades, reported a Christian relief group working in the area. more >>

A lawyer for a runaway Christian convert from Ohio says the 18-year-old Sri Lanka native has gained permanent residency in the United States. more >>

A fiery preacher who plans to open a Christian center near New York City’s Ground Zero held the first worship service for it Sunday. more >>

The five-year-old granddaughter of Florida megachurch pastor Joel C. Hunter passed away Sunday. more >>

An evangelical megachurch in the former Soviet Union state of Azerbaijan has been kept from meeting for worship since January because of a string of bureaucratic obstacles. more >>

The Church of England’s second highest-ranking cleric said he is “stunned” by the U.K. coalition government’s decision not to support a European Union directive to combat sex trafficking. more >>

The oil spill has become this mirror into our frail society. A society that has been educated by history books that teach us that those at fault are everyone else but us. more >>

Evolutionary psychology seeks to explain human altruism as a result of evolution. But the theory can’t hold water . . . or scientific integrity. more >>

Islam is more than mere religion in the recently secularized Western sense — i.e., private beliefs that are largely irrelevant to public life. more >>

Q: I've always been a fairly independent person, and for that reason I've never bothered getting connected to a church. It always seemed like too much hassle. more >>