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Freedom and religious neutrality are hallmarks of a true democracy.

“Religion is back in our country, bigger and stronger than it has been in many, many years,” President Donald Trump announced ...

Adherence to organized religion is falling in the United States, but defenders of the religious right are ascendant in positions of power in the Trump administration.

Texas Democrat James Talarico said that Christianity is the most violent religion and celebrated atheists in an interview from earlier this year. According to remarks he made during a February profile ...

The new syllabus has been drawn up after the UK's highest court previously ruled the RE taught here was unlawful.

When he talks about the role of religion in the founding of the United States, historian Gregg Frazer does not attract eager audiences. “Neither side really wants to hear what I say," says Frazer, a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The decline of Christianity in the U.S. has slowed over the past few ...

Christianity is, by an order of magnitude, the most persecuted religion in the world. Between 360,000,000 and 380,000,000 Christians face high degrees of hostility. Conservative estimates are that ...

A pair of lectures by world-renowned scholars next month at Calvin College will address what Calvin's Joel Carpenter calls a sleeper topic in the study of the history of Christianity. First Kwame ...

For three years, Christian missionaries with the evangelical organization Cru have gathered every Friday in VRChat, a popular social platform where millions of people from around the world interact th ...

As of 2020, people who identify with a religion make up about 76% of the world’s population, according to a new Pew Research Center study on global religious change. This is down by about 1 percentage ...