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With a weekend deadline approaching when churches will no longer be allowed to meet in New York City's public schools, the state Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow worship services to continue. The bill still needs approval from the Assembly and the governor, but the Assembly speaker expressed doubt that the bill would move forward.
President Obama remains opposed to California Proposition 8, his press secretary said Tuesday, as three of the Republican presidential candidates affirmed their support for it and opposition to a controversial appeals court ruling.
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's Proposition 8, handing gay groups a big win while avoiding the larger question of whether the U.S. Constitution guarantees gays nationwide the right to gay "marriage."
The fallout from Planned Parenthood's triumph in its public relations war with Susan G. Komen for the Cure continues, even as a new report to Congress suggests 20 percent of the abortion provider's affiliates could be guilty of waste and fraud involving government funds.
Within a month after Indianapolis turned heads by hosting the Super Bowl, Southern Baptists are being invited back to take a closer look at the city and at a number of potential church planting sites in the metro area.
Hyderabad is a unique city of nearly 10 million people in India, with a high percentage of Muslims -- rare in this Hindu-dominated nation -- and the nation's second largest information technology center.
Southern Baptist Convention President Bryan Wright, in a chapel message at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, talked about the influence Christians should have on the people around them -- and on future generations.
The Obama administration's "contraceptive mandate" would force religious organizations to pay for abortions and is a declaration of "war on religion and freedom of conscience," says columnists Richard Land and Barrett Duke.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum rolled to victories in three states Tuesday, including a surprising win in Colorado that he hopes will make him the leading challenger to Mitt Romney.
Georgia's Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a law banning advertising for assisted-suicide services is unconstitutional.
To reach North American for Christ, Southern Baptist have to be willing to venture into uncharted places and adapt their methodologies, says NAMB president Kevin Ezell.
The rationale that leads to a ban on churches like the one enacted by New York City follows the principle that in order to avoid poisoning young minds, we must strip religion out of our lives, treating it like pornography, says columnist Ed Stetzer.
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Rick Santorum's clean sweep in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday was the latest plot twist in what was already a potboiler of a Republican presidential campaign. Here are five things we learned from Tuesday:
First lady Michelle Obama takes on late night TV host Jimmy Fallon in a fitness challenge.
As he was handily winning three Republican contests and stalling frontrunner Mitt Romney's clear path to the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Santorum proclaimed to CNN that the 2012 GOP race was now "in a little bit of no man's land."
Rick Santorum awoke to a new reality Wednesday after sweeping all three Republican presidential contests a day earlier, reshaping the contest that will decide who runs against President Barack Obama in November.
Deja vu, round two, a bad sequel or simply "here we go again" are some ways to describe the latest fight over extending the payroll tax cut. But even facing an end-of-month deadline before the 2% tax holiday expires, lawmakers appear no closer to a deal.
After passing 23 temporary extensions, the Senate voted 75 to 20 Monday to approve a long-term funding bill for the FAA and sent it to the president for his expected signature.
Top Senate Republicans are proposing eliminating part of the across-the-board and painful budget cuts required after the so-called super committee failed in November, according to two Senate Republican aides.
Ruben Navarrette says Karl Rove was wrong to suggest that Clint Eastwood's ad was about paying President Obama back for the auto industry bailout
Gloria Borger says Mitt Romney doesn't seem comfortable talking to Americans about money, and Newt Gingrich can't control his anger
LZ Granderson encourages anybody against the "strip club" bill to walk into a manufacturing plant and ask workers how they feel about their tax dollars being spent on strippers -- by welfare recipients no less.
Newt Gingrich has absorbed a fair degree of ridicule for his campaign proposal to build an American colony on the moon. Before focusing the laughter solely on Gingrich, however, let's recall that it is the declared policy of the U.S. government to return a human being to the moon by 2020, in preparation for sending a human astronaut to Mars. If Gingrich is wrong (and he is), he's not wrong alone.
Coming off a drubbing by rival Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich plans to head to home turf as part of his strategy to revitalize his struggling presidential bid with a strong showing in next month's Super Tuesday primaries.
Rick Santorum's Tuesday trifecta reflects a central truth of the 2012 campaign. The most conservative voters will never love Mitt Romney, no matter what he says or does. They doubt his authenticity and wish they could vote for someone else.
Rick Santorum's Tuesday trifecta reflects a central truth of the 2012 campaign. The most conservative voters will never love Mitt Romney, no matter what he says or does. They doubt his authenticity and wish they could vote for someone else.
Coming off a drubbing by rival Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich plans to head to home turf as part of his strategy to revitalize his struggling presidential bid with a strong showing in next month's Super Tuesday primaries.