I've spent the last eight years asking that question. Having satisfied myself—if not everyone I've met—that there's value in using empirical methods to study prayer, I've thought a lot about how to do ...

MARIN COUNTY, Calif., Jan. 8, 2006 — -- Natalia Kraft has a pretty good reason to believe in prayers: This past year, she survived breast cancer. Now, she is part of a study to see if, in fact, ...

Prayer may be the most universally applied form of treatment for sickness, injury and disease. It’s used around the world, across cultures and for at least as long as reports of human suffering reach ...

Stopping just short of abandoning a historic barrier to religion in government activity, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday that local governments may open their meetings with prayers that ...

"It could have torn our family apart and it made us all stronger. It made us all come together. It made us acknowledge verbally what was most important," remembers Susan Brooks. The year 2005 was ...

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(UNDATED) Every night during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Kamran Riaz and his younger brother, Rehan, perform a sort of spiritual sound-check, each listening to the other’s recitation of verses ...