Evangelical leaders who met five months ago with Rick Perry to help launch his presidential bid will go back to Texas and back to the drawing board to see if they can find an actual viable candidate to rally around.

Odds are they won’t settle on anyone, much like conservative Christian voters couldn’t in Iowa.

They likely won’t pick their biggest sibling rival, Mormon Mitt Romney.

Jeff Weiss tries to figure out what happened to Michele Bachmann’s call from God to run for president, and all those other dropped connections.

A senior bishop in the Church of England has described plans to allow assisted suicide for the terminally ill morally unacceptable.

Christians faced increasing attacks at the hands of Muslims in a number of countries in 2011, with Sudan and Nigeria showing the greatest increase in the persecution ranking released by the Christian support group Open Doors.

But North Korea still led the list, as it does so many bad guy categories, leaving the recently-deceased Kim Jong-Il with yet another accomplishment to take to his grave.

The Israel Defense Forces temporarily expelled 12 right-wing extremists from the West Bank on Thursday, saying they were believed to be planning attacks against Palestinians.

An African-American pastor at Kentucky’s largest African-American congregation, St. Stephen Baptist Church, is suing for discrimination: he says the church reassigned him because they are trying to attract more whites.

Better than Starbucks: The Assemblies of God, a leading Pentecostal denomination, opened more than a church a day last year, a total of 368 new churches in 2011,

Cross purposes: A Catholic priest in Australia is upset that supermarkets have already started selling hot cross buns — which are traditionally made for Good Friday to mark Jesus’ death on the Cross. He wants them pulled because selling them now undermines their religious significance.

Reaction to the revelation that Los Angeles auxiliary bishop Gabino Zavala had a secret family continues to roil the Catholic Church and raises the usual debates about the viability of celibacy.

As if marriage is a guarantee of fidelity to vows? Maybe the problem is too many straight guys in the priesthood. Just sayin’.

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— David Gibson