As Democrats try to win back one or both houses of Congress this November, they are increasingly employing the language of faith and morality to frame the issues, hearkening back to the 2004 GOP campaign and its appeal to "values voters."

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life today released the results of a 10-country survey of pentecostal and charismatic Christians, two large and fast-growing groups whose socially conservative views are impacting religion and politics worldwide.

John C. Green, one of the nation's foremost experts on the influence of religion on American politics, has joined the Washington staff of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and is available for interviews during this campaign and election season.

Mark O'Keefe is joining the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life as associate director, editorial. In this new position, Mark will serve as the Forum's daily news editor and oversee its website, pewforum.org.

This month marks the first anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman whose medical condition led to an emotional public debate over end-of-life issues.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled today that the adherents of a small religious group can continue, for now at least, to import and use an illegal drug in their worship services.

A unanimous Supreme Court today declined to rule on a New Hampshire abortion statute and instead instructed a federal appeals court to reconsider the statute's constitutionality.

By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court today upheld Oregon's assisted-suicide law, rejecting an attempt by the Bush administration to use a federal anti-drug law to prohibit doctors from helping terminally ill patients to end their own lives.

A federal district court judge ruled today that a Pennsylvania school board's decision to include intelligent design in the high school science curriculum was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, and American University's School of International Service are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint initiative: Islam in the Age of Globalization.

Leading experts and activists will gather for a special town hall meeting on Thursday, Oct. 6, to discuss the growing influence of America's evangelical Christian movement on international affairs and American foreign policy during the Bush administration.

A closely divided Supreme Court yesterday issued two decisions on the legality of Ten Commandments displays in public buildings and on public property.

A closely divided Supreme Court today issued two decisions on the legality of Ten Commandments displays in public buildings and on public property.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life announced today that Dr. John C. Green will join the Forum as a senior fellow in religion and American politics during the 2005-06 academic year.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life today released an analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision in Cutter v. Wilkinson.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), a federal law that aims to protect the religious freedom of inmates and others held in state and local institutions.

Roughly four-in-ten Americans (39%) say they have a favorable impression of Islam, while about as many (37%) say they have an unfavorable view.

Republicans gathering this week in New York to nominate George W. Bush for a second term will be heartened by the results of a new poll showing that voters see the GOP as the more religion friendly of the two major political parties.

The Supreme Court today preserved the term "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, reversing an earlier ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that teacher-led recitation of the Pledge, when it contained the words "under God," was unconstitutional.

The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced that Luis E. Lugo, director of the Religion program at the Trusts, has been named the new director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and confirmed that the Forum is expanding its role to become the Trust's primary resource for examining religion and how it shapes public life in America and abroad.