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

Here’s an imponderable: The largest effort so far to measure the power of distant prayer to heal the sick found it didn’t help – and in one curious respect, prayer was associated with poorer outcomes, ...

In the largest scientific test of its kind, heart surgery patients showed no benefit when strangers prayed for their recovery. And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a slightly higher ...

“One Nation Under God,” by James P. Moore Jr., tackles a big subject in a unique way. It is not simply about prayer: how and when and why to pray or even to what being one should pray. It doesn’t even ...

Praying for a sick cardiac patient may feel right to people of faith, but it doesn’t appear to improve the patient’s health, according to a new study that is the largest ever done on the healing ...

The researchers set out to quantify the effects of faith, calling upon the best logic of science. They designed a randomized, controlled trial, the gold standard of scientific study. They sought out ...

HOUSTON -- For centuries, science has been trying to prove or disprove the power of prayer. Now a new study of MRI brain scans shows that there is power in prayer, or meditation. Not just spiritual ...

At the Fairfax Community Church in Virginia, the faithful regularly pray for ailing strangers. Same goes at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington and the Islamic Center of Maryland in Gaithersburg.

TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Making the most out of the lunch hour is taking on a new meaning for some East Texas women of faith. They’re feeding a hunger for spiritual growth through an hour-long bible study.

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 ...