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 ...

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 ...

Does praying for a sick person's recovery do any good? In the largest scientific test of its kind, heart surgery patients showed no benefit when strangers prayed for their recovery. And patients who ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

Praying for someone who is ill and preparing to undergo a risky medical procedure appears to have no effect on the patient’s future health. That’s the finding of one of the largest scientific ...

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 ...

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 ...