The Council of Churches of Western Massachusetts is creating a gaming council – the "Western Massachusetts Council for Gaming Accountability" - that will be in council with Compulsive Gambling and the National Council on Problem Gambling.

On Tuesday, officials in the southeast Idaho town of Roberts removed three lighted crosses from the water tower after a complaint from resident Joe Cohea. Atheist or not, Cohea opposes the expression of religious sentiment on government property, igniting debate in the small town of nearly 700.

Hobby Lobby's case for exemption from a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires religious employers to cover Plan B and Ella One emergency contraceptives that can cause early abortion was argued in court on Thursday.

911 calls are going unanswered following staffing shortages in several Oregon counties, according to reports.

As residents in Moore, Okla., recover from the damaging effects of an EF5 tornado which ripped through the center of the state on Monday, a faith-based outreach organization is teaming up with celebrity singer Joe Jonas to provide relief to the local community.

President Barack Obama spoke to 841 men and 206 women at the Naval Academy commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland on Friday, telling them that sexual assault threatens the entire military and it should be stopped.

A soon-to-be published study on World War II veterans found that those who had bad experiences of combat were more likely to pray and then attend church after the conflict.

A woman has claimed to have seen a UFO over a historic barn in Santee, Calif., on May 7, according to reports.

A teacher has been fired for using the word "negro," and she is now filing a lawsuit against the school saying that her use of the word was not in a racial context, but was purely educational.

Rebecca Vitsmun, the Oklahoma tornado survivor who told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that she is an atheist, is going to be receiving tens of thousands of dollars in donations from the secular community, who decided to support her for speaking out about her non-belief.