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According to a new poll jointly conducted by NBC and The Wall Street Journal, 21 percent of Americans feel that religion is losing importance in their lives.

It has been 13 months since the Sandy Hook tragedy shocked the United States, and the nation has not felt safe since that incident. The fact that there have been 30 more school shootings after Sandy Hook has not helped assure people that their children are safe. What's more appalling is that these school shootings contribute a small percentage of the number of youth hurt or killed by firearms each year.

National Marriage Week USA isn't just a week out of the calendar year to express the joy of marriage; rather it is a week to raise awareness on the importance and long term rewards a stable marriage has to offer.

The average American lives to 78.7 years. Yet more than one in three Americans want to live to be at least 120 – and sometimes older -- according to a study from the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project and The Huffington Post.

A new survey released on Monday found that young people strongly supported same-sex marriage and believed homosexuality to be moral and compatible with religion.

NEW YORK - A poll released Tuesday by the QEV Analytics, a public opinion research firm in Washington D.C., shows that 57 percent of New York voters oppose gay marriage.

Do young people care about traditional marriage? Focus on the Family CEO Jim Daly recently conceded to World Magazine that evangelicals are losing the fight for traditional marriage in the polls with young Americans in their 20s and 30s. Gay rights advocates who have sponsored some of those polls agree. However, young conservatives are asking other adults not to count them out of the national debate on conservative values.

Compared to atheists and agnostics, Protestants are less knowledgeable about the teachings, history and figures of major world religions, a new survey reveals.

Things aren't as bad in American Christianity as many say it is, according to one sociologist.

While American consumers continue to worry about jobs and paying the bills, 7 in 10 Christian households reported in a recently published survey that they actively pay off their credit cards in full every month and nearly 8 of 10 Christian households said they continue to give ten percent or more of their income to local churches and ministries.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Protestant pastors in the U.S. have a negative view of Islam and more than half agree with Franklin Graham’s statement that Islam is an “evil” religion, according to a just-released study by LifeWay Research. More than 4 in 10 agree that Islam is dangerous and promotes violence.

The latest research done on an international-scale revealed that the financial crisis in recent years have left the majority of those in Asian countries to value money more than ever before, in particular, China, Japan, and South Korea. The issue of how the church should introduce the proper views on money to the society has become more urgent than before.

President Obama’s support among born-again Christians has decreased after a year in office, a new survey shows.

Evangelist Billy Graham and Pope Benedict XVI are among the top ten people that Americans most admired in 2009, according to a new poll.

Only half of Americans rate the honesty and ethics of clergy as very high or high, a new Gallup poll reveals.

Though the United States is an overwhelmingly Christian country, significant minorities profess belief in a variety of Eastern or New Age beliefs, as revealed in a new poll by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Leaders struggle the most in areas related to developing tools needed to succeed, found a new Barna study that identifies the weaknesses of leaders.

New research shows that the younger generation in America is less likely to view the Bible as accurate or sacred, but at the same time they are slightly more interested in gaining knowledge about the Bible than older generations.

About one out of every three scientists in the United States professed believing in God, a recent survey found.

The Barna Group on Monday released a new study that explores the faith life of homosexuals compared to heterosexuals.

A recent poll released this week shows that the majority of American voters do not want their state to allow gay marriage.

A new Newsweek poll reveals that although most Americans are still holding on to their faith and describing themselves as Christians, fewer believe religion can answer today's problems

Less than one percent of the youngest adult generation in America has a biblical worldview, found a new study examining the changes in worldview among Christians and the overall U.S. population.

In a report released by U.S. Census Bureau on March 3, the Asian alone or Asian in combination with or more other races has reached 15.2 million people in 2007 and from 2006 through 2007 the growth of Asians has increased by 2.9%, which is the fastest among all the ethnic groups.

The Christian arm of a research-based firm that consults various organizations has released this year’s list of the best Christian workplaces in America.