Pew Research Center has been tracking restrictions on religion around the world since 2007. We divide these restrictions into two categories: actions by governments and actions by private individuals ...

For this report, we gathered data on existing “stocks” of international migrants – all adults and children who now live outside their birth country, no matter when they left. (This report does not ...

Guinea-Bissau is a tropical country in West Africa, that is home to a little over 2 million people. It is one of the most religious countries in the world with more than 80% of the population praying ...

Some research shows that New Zealand has some of the least amount of government restrictions on religion in the world. The law in the country prohibits discrimination based on religion. According to ...

(RNS) — A new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population shows Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated. Though ...

Newsweek has created maps showing the most and least religious states, amid nationwide religious decline, with Mississippi the most and Vermont the least. The maps are based on the Pew Research Center ...

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 ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a new report on Wednesday highlighting the countries with the worst religious persecution in the world. From this report, which ...

Despite the rise of science, technology, and secular thought, religion remains a powerful force shaping the beliefs, behaviors, and identities of billions. From ancient spiritual systems to newer ...

The heyday of the new atheism in Western life, when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode best-seller lists, did not arrive because brilliant new arguments for God’s ...