Islamic Nations Say Will Tackle Maternal Deaths: U.S.

"Islamic countries, home to about half the estimated 400,000 women worldwide who die in childbirth each year, have promised to cut maternal mortality, U.S. Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius said on Monday."

Evangelical Christian Leaders Call for Immigration Reform

"Evangelical leaders calling for comprehensive immigration reform say their pastors see firsthand the difficulties faced by immigrants who fear arrest and deportation."

The New War Between Science and Religion

"There is a new war between science and religion, rising from the ashes of the old one. . ."

Study: Babies Know the Difference Between Good, Evil

"The view of many psychologists and scientists for years has been that parenting and environmental factors are what determine a person’s morals. The experiments conducted by the psychology department at Yale University showed that babies may already have a sense of right and wrong before it is introduced to them by their family."

Pope Sees Sex Scandal as Greatest Threat to Catholic church

"The clerical abuse scandal represents the greatest threat to the Roman Catholic Church and the crisis was 'born from sins within the church' not outside, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday on a trip to Portugal."

Millennials Increasingly Find Their Religion Online

"Young people are defining their own spiritual paths, says Rebecca Phillips, vice president of social networking for Beliefnet.com. 'Young people are not necessarily doing the same thing religion-wise that their parents did, and they're developing their own unique brands of spirituality,' she says. It seems to affirm a Lifeway Christian Resources study showing that 72 percent of Millennials, the generation between 18 and 30 years old, say they are more spiritual than religious. Fewer of them attend worship services, pray or read sacred scriptures."

92% Say There is a God and 83% Say God Answers Prayers

". . .92% say there is a God and 83% say this God answers prayers, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 1,000 adults May 1-2. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points."