The concept of religion has played a significant role in shaping the development of many societies. In some nations, religion ...

A collection of classroom resources for primary and secondary schools to support teaching around World Religion Day. When is World Religion Day? World Religion Day takes place each January ...

From August 14 to 18, 2023, I attended a Parliament of the World Religions in Chicago. The gathering drew together more than 7,000 people representing about 100 countries and more than 200 ...

Tarsus – in eastern Turkey, around 180 miles from the Syrian border – is a gumbo of history, religion and food ... dismantled by German soldiers in World War I and only the foundations ...

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave ...

There’s only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sheik, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are ...

Sponsored by the BYU School of Communications, the program sought to “explore issues of belonging and diversity within the contexts of world religions, gender, race and class,” according to ...

Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a ...

In percentage terms, this means Jews are more likely than people in the world’s other major religious groups to live outside their country of birth. 22 Two-in-ten Jews have moved across national ...

It is commonly understood that many people around the world face harassment and more severe forms of persecution for their religious beliefs. Few would question that in dictatorships like China or ...

By comparison, Muslims were about 25% of the world’s total population in 2020 ... than migrants from other major religious groups, staying closer to their countries of origin. For example, large ...

Newsweek has mapped the most religious countries in the world, according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center. To create its report, Pew drew on research conducted in over 100 locations ...