On March 25, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) held a launch event for its annual report. The event, held in a Senate office building on Capitol Hill, featured 10 current ...

the 18-year-old explained he lives at home with his “very religious” 60-year-old mom. He added that when he recently asked her for permission to go on the trip, she agreed on the condition ...

(RNS) — The religious freedom watchdog urged the new Trump administration to appoint a new ambassador-at-large to address religious restrictions and persecution around the world. (RNS ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

During each holiday before we eat, we say a Catholic mealtime prayer because we are religious. However, recently, my husband’s nieces and nephews, who are in their early 20s, stopped ...

I have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, philosophical and religious traditions. One of the most compelling aspects of ...

But recent Pew Research findings suggest that the decadeslong decline in American Christianity may be stabilizing, leaving religion sociologists like me to ask, “Why would the rate of religious ...

The holes, too, close on their own in a week.” A Hindu devotee pierces his body with skewers during the religious festival of Panguni Uthiram in Kochi, 2009. Photograph by Sivaram V/Reuters ...

The Quebec government has put forward legislation that would extend the province's ban on the wearing of religious symbols to support staff in schools, and prohibit students from having their ...