The largest medical study of the efficacy of intercessory prayer in healing has found that it has no effect on patients’ recovery from heart-bypass surgery, researchers announced on Thursday. Patients ...

When a landmark study suggests that intercessory prayer may actually hurt patients instead of help them, you have to wonder. Should your doctor prescribe prayer as part of your treatment? According to ...

In a recently-published study in the Journal of Family Psychology, BYU researchers explored how family prayer influences family relationships, finding a connection between prayer and a number of ...

A brief prayer session was associated with lower pain and anxiety among patients in a new study, with some of the reported improvements still evident weeks later. The study followed 180 patients who ...

Jesus modeled a different kind of prayer—mostly private, mostly alone, mostly quiet. That kind of prayer doesn’t make the news much. When I was young, I heard about people who prayed a lot on their ...

Praying for other people to recover from an illness is ineffective, according to the largest, best-designed study to examine the power of prayer to heal strangers at a distance. The study of more than ...

Praying for a romantic partner or close friend can lead to more cooperative and forgiving behavior toward the partner, according to a new study. Praying for a romantic partner or close friend can lead ...

The ridiculous contention between science and religion. We believe from compelling evidence that prayer works. There are things we can’t explain by science. But does God exist only where science doesn ...

DURHAM, N.C. - - Cardiac patients who received intercessory prayer in addition to coronary stenting appeared to have better clinical outcomes than those treated with standard stenting therapy alone, ...