Pressure is growing on the federal government to commit to the biggest reforms to hit the education sector in generations.

A panel for the Southern Baptist Convention recommended Monday that its leadership endorse a new, add-on description for the denomination — “Great Commission Baptists” — but stopped short of a complete, legal name change.

Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, on Tuesday questioned whether Mitt Romney's Mormon faith qualified as Christianity.

Famed atheist Alain de Botton, also a best-selling Swiss author and philosopher known for challenging Richard Dawkins and what he calls his "destructive" atheistic theology, has in a recent interview highlighted many ways in which religion is useful even for secularists.

A draft of the new classification system for psychiatry is now public. Rarely has a set of dry guidelines from Washington DC caused such consternation. Outlets from The New York Times to the Hindustan Times heralded its arrival. You would think it was the work of the World Bank or International Monetary Fund, not a bunch of shrinks.

David Cameron is to face a mass petition opposing plans to launch a "hostile strike" on the traditional view of marriage, campaigners have said.

THE Gillard government's commitment to overhaul school funding was thrown into doubt yesterday after Julia Gillard described the independent Gonski review only as "a good insight" and failed to endorse its approach.

THE Christian lobby has entered the Queensland election fight with an emotive attack on Labor MP Kate Jones.

Speaking at the launch of an organisation called that Coalition for Marriage, Lord Carey said he was "worried and disappointed" that the government has taken it upon itself to redefine marriage.

THE Gonski report into school funding will recommend a financial benchmark for the cost of educating a child to a national standard.

REFORMS to the school funding system will focus on lifting the performance of disadvantaged and low-achieving students, with an independent review expected to recommend increased funding for all schools.

Much of the biblical scholarly world has been buzzing since Feb. 1, when a New Testament professor made a claim during a debate that was news to most everyone who heard it -- a first-century fragment of Mark's Gospel may have been found.

Very religious people rate higher – compared to the moderately religious and nonreligious – on a Gallup “well being” survey released Thursday.

Bideford Town Council is to appeal against a High Court ruling that it must stop holding Christian prayers as part of council business at the start of meetings.

Britain's Education Secretary Michael Gove is under fire for his stance that the sex education curriculum of schools run by religious groups does not come under the purview of the country's equality laws that prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.