A Christian evangelical group that works to improve the lives of underprivileged children says it has been prohibited from conducting Bible study classes in public housing projects in Tulsa, Okla., potentially ...

With mental illness affecting one of every four families in the United States, Pathways to Promise has organized a three-day, faith-based summit designed to help churches and clergy better address this serious ...

September 26-27, 2009, child advocates from an expected 50 communities and 200 college campuses will work to raise awareness of one of the most tragic issues we face today: The trafficking of young childre...

A new study published in Psychological Science suggests that nearly one of every 10 children is addicted, on some level, to video games.The study, conducted by Douglas Gentile, director of research for the Nati...

Once thought of as an esoteric, mystical pursuit, meditation is going mainstream. A government survey in 2007 found that about 1 out of 11 Americans, more than 20 million, meditated in the past year. And a grow...

Like plenty of other high school students, a group of about a dozen Vermont teenagers trundled into a youth center one day every week this spring to participate in an after-school program. But their program wa...

San Diego County officials agreed Wednesday to rescind a cease-and-desist order issued to a pastor holding a small Bible study in his home. In a letter to the pastor, the county’s chief administrative off...

Smoking in youth-rated movies has not declined despite a pledge two years ago by Hollywood studios to encourage producers to show less "gratuitous smoking," according to an anti-smoking group. The American Medi...

It is 20 years since Ding Zilin stood by her gate and waited for her son. "What came were students with tattered clothes and dishevelled hair, shouting 'they are killing people, they are shooting at people,'" s...

President Obama has spoken proudly of American Muslims, even referencing his heritage as the son of a Muslim man, ahead of his highly anticipated speech Thursday in Cairo aimed at shoring up relations between t...