Witnesses and health workers say at least 31 Palestinians have been shot dead in Gaza while seeking food aid. Separately, hospitals say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians overnight ...

Muslims emerged as the fastest growing religious group in the world over 2010-2020, while the share of Christians - the world's largest religious group - in the global population fell by 1.8 ...

A handful of world map murals are going up in classrooms at Heartland Community College as part of a pilot program to add a ...

According to ancient Buddhist texts, there are four stages between initial awakening and full enlightenment. Here, we discuss the first.

For a century, this small Tennessee town in Rhea County just north of Chattanooga has been known as “Monkey Town USA” in reference to the famous 1925 Scopes trial that pitted religion vs. evolution in ...

Father Mike Schmitz believes that sometimes preachers complicate messages in the Bible or just don’t meet people, ...

Catastrophic flooding struck central Texas on Friday as the Guadalupe River surged by more than 20 to 26 feet within 90 ...

There’s a bright blue awning on Polk Street in San Francisco that’s been stopping seafood lovers in their tracks for generations. Swan Oyster Depot isn’t just a restaurant – it’s a time machine ...

Sociologists of religion present a new edition of one of the most comprehensive empirical studies of religious trends across the world – Detlef ...

According to the latest data from the Pew Research Center, Buddhism is the only religion to have fewer believers in 2020 than in 2010, a drop of 18.6 million, largely due to a low birth rate in ...

As video games such as ‘Black Myth: Wukong,’ with strong religious themes, gain popularity, a course uses the interactive experience to teach students about the role of religion.