(RNS) — In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released Monday (June 17) by Pew Research Center. But while many East ...

Buddhists are the only group in this report whose number declined worldwide between 2010 and 2020. This was due both to religious disaffiliation among Buddhists in East Asia and to a relatively low ...

Few people in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam say religion is "very important" in their lives or pray daily, says a new survey by the US-based Pew Research Center. Among the East ...

Large shares of adults in most of the 36 countries we surveyed say religion helps society rather than harms it. 2 Most also say religion encourages tolerance, not intolerance. But people are slightly ...