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The audience at last month's Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Ky.

As U.S. Attitudes Change, Some Evangelicals Dig In; Others Adapt

5:47pm May 10, 2016

America's culture war is being fought inside evangelical Christian circles. Some are resisting secular society's trends that conflict with biblical teaching. Others have found a way to live with them.

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Nick Wilson (left), at his ordination last month, is given a framed sign from Pastor Matt Johnson that reads "Just As I Am," the title of one of Wilson's favorite hymns.

Acceptance Grows, Slowly But Steadily, For Gay Evangelicals

5:44pm May 10, 2016

Growing up, gay evangelicals may have thought they had to be one or the other. It's different now. At one welcoming Baptist church in Kentucky, a member says, gay congregants "walk through the door."

An Assyrian Christian woman prays at a church service in Tell Tamer, Syria. The service is to remember members of the community killed after about 300 people were taken captive by ISIS in March 2015.

World News

In Syria, Assyrian Christians Cling On After ISIS Onslaught

12:43pm March 27, 2016

by Alice Fordham

In northeastern Syria, Christians are mourning those killed by ISIS when the militants tore through a band of Assyrian villages a year ago. The towns were recaptured, but the community is scarred.

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Pope Francis said Christians and Muslims worship the same God — but not everyone agrees.

Religion

Do Christians And Muslims Worship The Same God?

6:40am December 21, 2015

by Tom Gjelten

A Wheaton College professor was placed on leave for declaring, in a gesture of solidarity, that Christians and Muslims "worship the same God." But do they? The answer may depend on whom you ask.

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Attendees pray during the Family Leadership Summit — an event sponsored by the conservative Family Leader organization — in Ames, Iowa, in July.

Conservatives Call For 'Religious Freedom,' But For Whom?

5:42pm December 11, 2015

by Tom Gjelten

Republican presidential candidates decry what they call a "war on faith." Religious conservatives say they face anti-Christian bigotry. But the rise of anti-Muslim sentiment reveals a double standard.

Pakistani human rights activists condemn the killing of the Christian couple for alleged blasphemy during a demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan, in November.

More Than 100 Charged In Mob Killing Of Christian Couple In Pakistan

4:53pm May 21, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Prosecutors say clerics accused the couple of burning a page of the Quran and helped incite a mob to incinerate them in a brick kiln.