HealthDay News — When it comes to dealing with illness, most Americans turn to a higher power for help, according to research published online April 13 in the Journal of Religion and Health. ...

A new study released Monday reveals that a vast majority of Americans turn to their faith during a health challenge. Nearly nine of 10 Americans have relied upon healing prayer at some point in ...

Laying hands on people’s foreheads to pray for them, that was out, too. “What it will feel like, I don’t know.” But he said it would not be the typical, interactive African American ...

The particular religious practice, called the “laying on of hands,” dates back to the roots of Christianity, when followers of Jesus experienced an explosion of spirituality during the Jewish ...

Their Calling Was to Lay Hands on the Sick. Then Came the Coronavirus. How the pandemic transformed the lives and ministry of eight Manhattan friars, and what their example can teach the rest of us.