SEBRING — Church services are held on Fridays for some of the Highlands County Detention Facility inmates, and Joe Valentin is one of their pastors. The Southern Baptist minister comes to the jail once a week, giving sermons that rarely go beyond 15 minutes but spread a message of hope and faith to those that have "all the time in the world" to consider it, he said. ...more

May 12, 2008

Evangelist Billy Graham underwent successful surgery Wednesday to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain and was expected to remain in the hospital for several days. ...more

February 14, 2008

This past Tuesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty. ...more

December 26, 2007

Mike Huckabee's politics of piety appears to be winning the hearts of Iowa Republicans. He has acquired a new first name from the nation's headline writers, who call him Surging Huckabee. ...more

December 23, 2007

Mike Huckabee's politics of piety appears to be winning the hearts of Iowa Republicans. He has acquired a new first name from the nation's headline writers, who call him Surging Huckabee. ...more

December 22, 2007

Mike Huckabee apologized to Mitt Romney on Wednesday for raising questions about the Mormon faith, again pushing religion to the fore of an increasingly bitter fight for the Republican presidential nomination. ...more

December 13, 2007

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scheduled to make "the religion speech" Thursday, but don't count on him giving a soliloquy on Mormon beliefs and practices. ...more

December 5, 2007