About 4.1 billion people, half of the global population, suffer some degree of religious persecution in 24 countries, ...

Religious faith is often associated with happiness, peace of mind, and a sense of purpose. A new series of scientific ...

We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community who grew up in ultra-religious households and later distanced themselves from faith to tell us what motivated them to do so. We received some incredibly ...

Students from Juan Diego Catholic High School are joined by students from St. John the Baptist middle and elementary schools during The Skaggs Catholic Center’s celebration of Ash Wednesday with an ...

People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of “religious churning” is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research ...

In March, the Public Religion Research Institute released a report examining the common phenomenon of “religious churn” in the United States: people leaving the religion in which they were raised.

Most U.S. adults express positive views about America’s openness to people from around the world, the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. This is true across the religious spectrum. Upward of ...

This report describes the world’s religious makeup in 2020 and how it changed from 2010. We focus on seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other ...

A major new study on religious views in the United States finds – as Americans’ connection to organized religion continues to fade – there are deep divides over the appropriate role for religion in ...

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African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex ...