Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more ...

While Christians remained the world’s largest religious group at the end of the decade that ended in 2020, Christianity’s growth did not keep up with global population increase. But Islam — the ...

Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated, according to a new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population between ...

Global study finds Christian decline, especially in high-income countries. Around the world, millions of people have traded the religious traditions of their upbringing for no religion at all. In ...

Reference works that provide pound-for-pound excellence. When I was a young boy, my parents bought a richly illustrated children’s encyclopedia. The happy event occurred about the time that I had ...

In their absence (for now, before the Machine God is unveiled or the U.F.O.s descend), the reasonable religious conclusion ...

A growing number of Britons who leave Christianity are turning to paganism or other forms of spiritualism instead of ...

Christian, Islamic, and secular/atheistic perspectives and politics have shaped recent world history more than any other ...

A pair of lectures by world-renowned scholars next month at Calvin College will address what Calvin's Joel Carpenter calls a sleeper topic in the study of the history of Christianity. First Kwame ...

(RNS) — Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley made a bit of news at the National Conservatism Conference last week by provocatively asserting, “(S)ome will say now that I am calling America a Christian nation.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — In a speech on religious liberty given at the Museum of the Bible on Monday (Sept. 8), President Donald Trump vowed his administration would combat “anti-Christian bias,” spurring ...