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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court decided March 31 to review the case of a 33-year-old religious organization that wants to have its tenets posted in a Utah municipal park near a monument of the Ten Commandments.

VATICAN CITY - Islam has "overtaken" Catholicism in number of adherents, though Christianity as a whole remains the world's most widely professed faith, the Vatican's top statistician said.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Evangelicals are less likely than the overall population to divorce, although one out of every four evangelicals who are or have been married nevertheless have gone through at least one divorce, according to a BarnaUpdateID=295">new study by The Barna Group.

Members of the Followers of Christ meet twice weekly at a non-descript building in Oregon City, Ore. Church members believe in treating illness through prayer, not medicine.

Photo by Jessica Bruder — The Oregonian

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OREGON CITY, Ore. - Until the faith-healing death of little Ava Worthington on March 2, members of the Followers of Christ Church appear to have lost just one child to sickness since 1999, when state lawmakers banned parents from treating gravely ill children solely with prayer.