Kimberly Winston

People often claim that famous nonbelievers had a deathbed conversion to Christianity. It happened again after the death last week of physicist Stephen Hawking, who said he did not believe in God.

For the 16th year in a row, North Korea tops the list of 50 countries ranked for the worst persecution of Christians in the world, according to OpenDoors USA.

For the second year in a row, President Trump and his conservative evangelical supporters topped the list of the 10 most important religion news stories of the year.

The Field Hospital: Five minutes from here, the landscape is all ash and ruin. But inside this small chapel, there is a kaleidoscope of stained-glass light and a single man sitting bathed in that light.

Within hours of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds, mourners and the merely curious started creating and visiting a spontaneous memorial.

On Monday (Oct. 2), President Donald Trump spoke to a nation still reeling from the worst mass shooting in modern American history. Over 50 people were killed and hundreds injured.

The future of religion in America is young, non-Christian and technicolor.

Over the weekend, the battle over monuments to controversial figures extended to California, where a statue of a Catholic saint, Fr. Junipero Serra, was vandalized in Los Angeles.