Wedged between the Middle East, south Asia and central Asia, Afghanistan occupies a pivotal place in world geography and world history. Its location has helped draw a diversity of cultures, religions ...

Faithful Christians around the world celebrated on Sunday the resurrection of Jesus Christ, from Vatican City where Pope ...

For decades, the share of American Catholics declined in the face in secularization. But in recent years, those numbers have ...

This Easter, Orthodox and Catholic Christians find themselves united in a rare occurrence: celebrating the resurrection of ...

Christians are celebrating Holy Week with processions and reenactments in places like Jerusalem, Brazil, Nigeria, India, ...

A little-known Islamic sect is looking to establish its own state in Albania, equivalent to an Islamic Vatican City. There ...

At 282 million people, Indonesia is the largest Muslim majority nation in the world and fourth largest in population. It is a ...

The University of Houston has defended its “Lived Hindu Religion” course, asserting its commitment to academic freedom following student complaints of “Hinduphobia.” The university ...

The description fits nicely within Wilson’s Bahá’í faith, which teaches that “the religions of the world come from the same Source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God.” ...

Our world presents monotheism apologetically as superior to polytheism, the latter often being dismissed under the label of paganism. In the eyes of monotheistic religions, polytheism is merely a ...

NEW YORK — An estimated one-fifth of adults around the world have left the faith group in which they ... 28% in the United States and 21% in Brazil “no longer identify with their childhood religion.” ...