“As of 2010, Christianity was by far the world’s largest religion, with an estimated 2.2 billion adherents, nearly a third of the Earth’s 6.9 billion people.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued a report highlighting those it calls the worst violators of religious freedom in the world. Among them are many Asian and Middle ...

The world’s most populous nation, China, is registered as ‘unaffiliated’ on the map. Under the rule of Mao Zedong, religion was suppressed with the Communist government adopting an atheist ...

New Survey Shows The World's Most And Least Religious Places : The Two-Way Sixty-three percent of people who took part in a global survey of religious attitudes say they are religious, according ...

Younger religious freedom activists joined hundreds of people from various faiths from all over the world at the third annual International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C.

Religion is very important to most people in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Overall, in the average country surveyed, 54% of adults say religion is very important in their lives. However, ...

More than half of Americans (53%) now say religion is very important in their lives, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.While this figure has declined somewhat in recent years – down ...

Vatican City, Dec 17, 2009 / 13:37 pm. On Thursday in the Vatican, the Holy Father met with and received the Letters of Credence from eight new ambassadors to the Holy See.

In Europe, where most countries are developed, was considered by the survey as the least religious, with most respondents not recognising religion as a very important aspect of their lives.

The report, sponsored by the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, offers many more head-spinning numbers and a religion-by-religion, region-by-region analysis of data from 198 countries ...