Praying at church or home for an individual's or group's wellbeing is just fine, but sometimes it's more effective do it in person, some religious leaders say. "There is something powerful about being ...

We read in I Corinthians 12:4-6, Matthew 28:15-20, Acts 1:8, and II Corinthians 3:5-6, that as the Lord’s disciples, we are ...

Studying the efficacy of prayer is a sensitive topic: Depending on where you come from, you can either consider it offensive even to try to apply a scientific method to a spiritual process, or you can ...

Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some ...

Pope Benedict XVI said at the June 1 general audience that intercessory prayer helps us to grow in deeper knowledge of God and his mercy and makes us more capable of loving others in a ...

COMMENTARY: Five years after his beatification, reports of answered prayers large and small reveal how the Knights’ founder ...

Some questions just will not die. “Why is there something instead of nothing?” is a perennial. Perhaps the second-most persistent question is this: “Is yawning contagious?” or “Why is yawning ...

Christians organize prayer campaign ahead of climate change conference in Glasgow. Christians in Asia, Europe, and North America will gather monthly from spring to fall to offer intercessory prayers ...