Religion in Society

9th Annual Interfaith Solidarity March in Los Angeles promotes peace and interfaith dialogue

Women are breaking through the glass ceiling in the Anglican Communion in Africa

“What you believe and what faith you profess don’t matter. The important thing is to believe something.”

A minor Jewish holiday, Purim lives on as a symbol.

How familiar spirituals were actually code to help slaves navigate the underground railroad and escape

A great many people, living and dead, will reap a measure of justice.

Adherents of Iran’s minority Zoroastrian celebrate Sadeh, an ancient festival that marks the end of the coldest winter days

Joint observation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“Repatriation isn’t just a rule on paper, but it brings real meaningful healing and closure to people.”

The language of the Blackfoot is a casualty of the ethnocidal Indian boarding schools.

“These places of worship... must exist for future generations to understand who we were as a people.”

“Everything that exists on our planet has life”

Protests halt developement of a large section of the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem

Commemorating the night of December 31, 1862, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation going into effect

Faith inspired one man to prevail in the closure and clean-up of the toxic, neighborhood oil drilling site.

Richard Gustav Niebuhr was among a handful of reporters who had a masterful understanding of religion’s key role in the history of the United States.

In his first Christmas message since assuming the throne, King Charles stressed care and compassion.

An ice-breaking, shoulder-relaxing welcome to a place of worship is the brain-child of the Rev. Susan Sparks.

The Hanukkah menorahs the Second Couple light this holiday reflect in their stories and symbolism of the twin elements of Jewish history—despair and joy.

Story behind the most popular hymn of all time.

October 7 attack on Israel and antisemitic incidents inspired a New York Upper East Side Orthodox congregation to counter the crisis with matchmaking.

A groundbreaking study by Springtide Research Institute

Apache tribal members mounting a court challenge to construction of a copper mine are joined by diverse groups

School agrees to retain its original name.

A tale of upholding the values of freedom, equality and compassion

Calling for an end to antisemitism in America and everywhere

Public officials urged to do everything in their power to stem the rising tide of hatred

In Israel, “We’re just trying to live another day.”

Indigenous peoples lived, built civilizations, brought forth culture, fine arts and trade tens of thousands of years ago when the ancestors of the European usurpers were still living in caves.

As forests shrink and the world grows warmer because of climate change, few countries are more concerned about Earth’s future than Benin

They created a free course: “Let’s Talk Race: A Beginner’s Guide to Conversations About Race,”

Converting their kitchens to cater to reservists and refugees who eat only kosher food

The oldest synagogue building in Washington, D.C. is linked by glass bridge to the new Capital Jewish Museum

19th-century St. Nicholas Church resembles a weathered log cabin, complete with a hunched bell tower.

A blend of ancient Eastern tradition with an American Vibe

May they soon be realities we can celebrate every day of the year.

A 10-year Gallup study offers new perspectives on the connection between religion and the quality of one’s life.

“Religious incitement” in war between Israel and Hamas

New windows oppose slavery and racism.

For the first time, a Sikh religious leader delivered the invocation to Congress September 29.

Museum of Faith, a one-of-a-kind institution devoted to telling the history of religious faith in England

Yiddish was a casualty of the Holocaust.

Jewish High Holy Days and the unfortunate but expected proliferation of antisemitism and its apologists.

New stained-glass windows unveiled for Washington’s National Cathedral

Fundamental questions of life and answers are found in Hindu heritage.

Bringing Jewish literature, lore and liturgy into the 21st century

In memory of the deaths of Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins

New archeological finds may be from the Bar Kokhba revolt of the Jews during the reign of Emperor Hadrian

Joint celebration of religious holidays brings two faith communities together

A multiethnic congregation applauds racial reconciliation and confronting and dealing with America’s racial history.

The international interfaith movement began in 1893 at the first Parliament of the World’s Religions

“We wanted to show that we’re still here—that we’re accepted, that we weren’t ended in 1933”

Major media minimized Sinéad O’Connor’s conversion to Islam.

Didier Nusbaumer was arrested August 8 along with 13 Burmese nationals, including a 12-year-old actress

Advocates gathered in support of religious freedom for people of all faiths or none

Over half of us, according to a Pew Research survey.

University hopes this will promote Christian engagement in the Near East.

Defying the Chinese Government’s claim that it alone may name Tibetan Buddhist leaders.

Honoring spiritual beliefs of Native Americans

ADL pledges to support this initiative

City officials falsely declared they had the Sunni Endowment Office’s blessing to destroy the landmark.

The Parliament of the World’s Religions returned to Chicago.

Creativity that springs from the traditions of the spiritual communities

Pope Francis’ vision of a church where women play a more significant role.

Two researchers explore use of AI to aid in the endeavor.

Statue symbolizes the 151 years of Christian and Jewish connection.

The procession holds profound significance for Shiite Muslims.

An acknowledgment of the expanding South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities of New York City

Remembering the artist who spoke out against intolerance and prejudice throughout his career

New and uniform regulations to ensure those in jails and prisons have the freedom to practice their chosen faiths

The pontiff recently announced he has selected 21 new cardinals.

Displaced women who didn’t just pick up the pieces of their lives–they knit their community together.

A nanobook of the pontiff’s teachings transmitted from space through a satellite

“This whole piece is really an argument I’m having with myself about belief or not,” says Simon of the album

Memoir co-authored by a friend offers new insights into the young girl’s life.

Return of the grand magnitude of the Hajj after COVID pandemic.

Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel on the Holocaust

Efforts to keep alive Syriac, an ancient Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian people traditionally spoken by Iraq’s dwindling Christian population.

No matter how shrill the shrieks of hate, they can never outlast the quiet simplicity of truth.

Answering the question, ‘In light of so much human suffering, how can an omnipotent power can also be benevolent?’

British-Australian mining giant seeks to convert the site into an underground copper mine.

Attacks from governments, drug cartels and gangs

Coronation to set an example of being inclusive of other religions

Evangelical Christian challenges USPS order that he deliver Amazon packages on the Sabbath to keep his job.

Many devout Muslim drivers are facing a challenge unique to their community.

Insights about the leader of the Third Reich are revealed in National Geographic's six-part series

To encompass a Holocaust observance takes more than a single day in a year.

Vandalism of mosque during Islam’s holiest month

Improves environmental, social and financial responsibility and reduces unethical behavior

Two billion faithful commemorate Ramadan.

Exhibition focuses on South Asian and other minority communities.

Countering the effects of climate change

Daily missives from a Christian space

The brotherhood of peace-lovers brought down by violence added a new member last month.

It is the first city in the United States to outlaw discrimination based on caste.

Thousands of Buddhists in Thailand celebrate the faith’s first major festival of the year.

One of the most joyous of holidays on the Jewish calendar

Pope Francis condemns exploitation of Africa as “economic colonialism.”

It seemed to be a good idea and turned out to be just that.

Ethiopian Jews existed and endured persecution, just as their brothers to the north and the west.

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square to further extend its reach throughout the world.

Promoting loving kindness and compassion as human values

Hody Childress, who took care of the medicinal needs of the community for a decade.

As many as 150 countries are celebrating World Hijab Day February 1.

“Naturally, I believe in changing the heart,“ he said. “I happen to be a Baptist preacher and that puts me in the heart-changing business...”

Never faltering in his commitment to the institutions of his church

Mainstream media religious coverage at odds with the general public

Does this signal a new chapter In the world’s approach to faith?

The minister injected life back into a community that had borne the scars of decades of racial conflict and neglect.

Somewhere on the 15th of November 2022, someone was born who pushed mankind over the threshold of 8 billion souls.

Catholic and Christian Orthodox Churches are close to achieving this goal.

Native American activist highlighted issues of race and exclusion that were long unconfronted or swept aside.

Muslims in the U.S. offering prayers in mosques has jumped dramatically over the past decade.

They invented a fake disease to prevent Nazi soldiers from finding their Jewish “patients.“

The Vatican has come under criticism from human rights advocates.

Yuval Noah Harari believes humanity’s greatest invention is not the wheel, the printing press, or harnessing the atom, but religion.

In 1944 they escaped the Nazis and were allowed to stay in the United States­­ provided they each signed an agreement to return to Europe at war’s end.

Ceremony held at the Madrid-based National Church of Scientology of Spain.

A religious precedent at one of Germany's largest and grandest mosques

A Hindu advocacy organization has accused California’s civil rights agency of violating the constitutional rights of Hindu Americans

After decades of peaceful coexistence, relations among Indian Americans from the Hindu and Muslim faiths are showing signs of strain.

Andrew van der Bijl, Dutch Christian missionary, has died at 94.

The pope implores Putin to “stop this spiral of violence and death.”

Hateful behavior against Hindus mirrors hostility directed at Jews and Muslims.

Thousands of Latin Americans leave home and try crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on foot to find work.

The attack on Salman Rushdie in August was an attack on the very purpose of the program.

Pewaukee, Wisconsin, nurtures houses of worship devoted to Hinduism and Jainism.

On Thursday, September 15, President Biden hosted United We Stand Summit at the White House to counter the destructive effects of hate-fueled violence.

Here are some good news items that you may have missed this year.

Ayurveda, the traditional Indian system of medicine that traces its millennia-long history to a physician who served the Hindu gods, has made inroads in the United States.

Oldest and longest-serving British monarch and official head of the Church of England.

“God has called me, because of who I am and not in spite of who I am.”

An Arabic word used by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 reverberated across the world.

He’s an Anglican priest who helped expose a deportation scandal in the UK government.

On the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, Chinese people honor deceased ancestors.

India’s highest civilian award

Interfaith environmental initiative at Moschea di Roma forwards fraternity, friendship and a common goal.

The Museum of the Bible, one of the world’s few institutions dedicated to the divinely inspired scripture, located in the heart of Washington, D.C.

Striking a balance between security and inclusion

Street preachers and fringe groups that disapprove of Wiccans used bullhorns to disrupt WitchsFest USA this summer.

Mr. Orban’s remarks are “a violation of human dignity and morals,” says Hungarian chief rabbi Robert Frölich.

Two religious leaders share their views on the atomic bombs’ destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

School district targets illustrated adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” based on a parental complaint.

Enes Kanter Freedom holds a clinic in basketball and mutual understanding

75 years after partition, the Punjabi Lehar YouTube channel brings closure to separated families.

This is where Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars now hold their annual interfaith retreat.

Two Muslim students at an Islamic college in India are among the winners of a contest based on the Ramayana.

The pope’s apology tour to Canada

Evangelical Christianity is thriving among migrant workers in the Persian Gulf.

Religious diversity flourished in America long before the adoption of the First Amendment.

They were en route to the sacred Shri Amarnathji shrine in a Himalayan cave in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

There is no such thing as an illegal asylum-seeker. It is the people who exploit them that we need to crack down on, not our sisters and brothers in their need.

Religious leaders and organizations urge coordinated international response.

“The sweet song of creation invites us to practice an ecological spirituality attentive to God’s presence in the natural world.”

Pastor Ortiz, a Baptist minister providing shelter to asylum seekers, says “If we want to make sure our light shines in the darker places, we have to step forward.”

Nearly half of youth age 16 to 25 in Britain went to bed hungry last year and almost a quarter of them were forced to miss work or education for lack of food.

The highest appeals court in Germany denied the request to remove a highly offensive antisemitic sculpture from a Wittenburg church.

Provisions would criminalize not just proselytization but also apostasy or renunciation of religious belief.

China feels India’s support of the religious leader amounts to interference in China’s “internal affairs.”

Religious and ethnic minorities and women suffer in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

Promoting the use of the Catalan language in the religious and social activities of religious communities

Mes Aynak, an ancient Buddhist city, was once among the most prosperous trade centers along the famed Silk Road.

Oxford Anglicans to vow to protect the environment as part of public religious worship

The first large city in the U.S. to allow mosques to broadcast the ‘adhan’ over an outdoor loudspeaker

Government has responsibility to revitalize Native education, language, cultural and religious practices.

The Bible-based practice of infant circumcision and ritual slaughter practiced by Muslims and Jews is under attack.

A major milestone in the history of the Greek Orthodox community of Southern Appalachia

Rabbi Hart reached out to Pastor Harris with an idea based on the biblical concept of “shmita.“

A multi-decade career of service to his country and mankind

David Curry, President and CEO of the Christian outreach organization Open Doors, is a new commissioner.

In honor of Frank R. Wolf’s recent appointment to the USCIRF we republish an analysis of the religious freedom act bearing his name.

The Museum of the Bible is to honor the spiritual legacy of the Black church and its contributions to American faith, culture and history.

Two Muslim MPs have been sworn in as ministers in Australia’s recently elected government—a first for the country.

With 2 million men and women incarcerated in the United States and 95 percent scheduled for release, aid for reentry into society is essential.

How chaplains sustained us in the height of the pandemic.

Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope with the vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

A secret refuge in a walled-off section of a church in Rome

Pháp Dung bid farewell to his worldly possessions and committed to a monastic life.

Sisters step forth in the spirit of Saint Paul to spread the word of Jesus Christ.

To Shadrach Kabango, better known as Shad, a life of harmony is the true objective.

The Church is inviting retired people with professional experience to become priests.

At its 2022 convention, Religion Communicators Council (RCC) elected Scientologist Brian Fesler as president of its board of governors.

Father Stu, a film about the power of religious faith to turn people’s lives around.

While religion has been the crux of many conflicts throughout history, often the discord stems from a lack of understanding.

The first woman to serve as president of the NCC and the first African American woman to serve as NCC general secretary

The long-awaited inclusion of girls in the renowned all-boys choir of St Paul’s Cathedral will finally take place in 2025.

The Rev. Jill Clancy says she’s thrilled that being a presence in the prison helped inmates confined to their cells because of the pandemic.

Supporting historical, architectural and artistic heritage of church buildings as assets to their communities

While the United States Senate is often notorious for their differences along party lines, they most definitely agree on one thing—human rights must be recognized on an international scale.

Nearly 125 years ago, a choirboy from a Victorian orphanage asked not to be forgotten. Here is his story.

A diocese of the church plans to build 300 new affordable homes on their own idle land over the next two years.

Making it possible for Afghan refugees to practice their religion and regain a sense of belonging

A 27-year-old chaplain in Ukrainian military struggles to deal with the reality of war.

Happiness. It’s what we strive for every day. Can a simple booklet of 21 precepts hold the key?

Black Men in White Coats event aims to bring more African Americans into the health care field.

For the first time in five decades, the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints Temple of Washington D.C., will be open to the public.

Religious Freedom Day was celebrated April 21 at the State Capitol.

Sister Stephanie Baliga is racing to deal with food insecurity. Literally.

The 11th President of the State of Israel hosted 200 guests at an interfaith iftar at his home April 13—two nights before Passover.

Why the holidays of three of the world’s major faiths—Judaism, Islam and Christianity—coincided in mid-April this year.

An iconic British museum devoted to art and promoting dialogue between diverse religions has been rescued.

Muslim leaders from across the Americas have endorsed the Charter of Makkah.

Gina A. Zurlo, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, believes the answer is “yes.”

“Praise New York,” an exhibit by Karl Haendel March 10–April 16 at the Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery on West 26th Street, honors unsung heroes.

Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadan with dawn-to-dusk fasting, charity, and prayer.

College basketball’s leading scorer across all NCAA divisions is a Sabath-observant Jew who has decided to enter the NBAA draft.

“Religion can have a favorable impact on individual-level health,” according to a study published in January.

Teaming up to help lessen the city’s affordable housing crisis.

Renowned ultra-Orthodox scholar and one of the most respected religious figures in Israel died March 18 at 94.

Madeleine Albright, top diplomat of the Clinton administration, died March 23. She was 84.

A 2021 study reveals discrimination against students with North African names applying for masters programs in France.

The first woman to hold a top position in the governorship of Vatican City

Sister Vassa Larin decries the silence of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Diaspora on the War in Ukraine.

Building inclusive fusion coalitions that are multiracial and interfaith

A new podcast about American converts to Islam is gaining public attention not so much for highlighting how and why they become Muslim but for going beyond their conversion stories to explore a deeper issue: What challenges do the individuals face after they change their faith and how does Islam con

Paul Farmer, Harvard physician and anthropologist, widely recognized for his leadership in providing medical care to some of the poorest people around the world, died in his sleep of sudden cardiac arrest on February 21 in Butaro , a rural region of Rwanda. He was 62.

For many Jews, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has taken on the stature of a Jewish hero of old.

A contingent of conservative members of the United Methodists Church announced they will form a new worldwide denomination on May 1, 2022.

Members of the Bahá’í faith, along with Zoroastrians, Persians, and Muslim communities are among more than 300 million celebrating Nowruz on the first day of spring.

Pope Francis invites the world to develop “a new politics for the elderly.”

Nearly 75 percent of young people age 13 to 25 identify as religious or spiritual.

Young is celebrating his 90th birthday with a four-day celebration March 9–12 dedicated to “peace and reconciliation.”

Legislation from the Missouri House of Representatives aims to prevent future shutdowns of religious organizations.

The pontiff urges the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to continue making religious freedom a priority.

A sociologist of religion and education has found that the religious upbringing of teenagers has a powerful influence on their academic success.

The Vatican believes there is “always room for negotiations.”

The unique and lasting contributions of two former Delaware slaves who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in protest against segregation in the house of God.

In celebration of National Black History Month, we honor the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman, a woman of deep and abiding faith.

A millennium after Iceland adopted Christianity as its national religion, a pagan faith dating to the era of the Vikings is making a vibrant comeback.

Youth and young adults from around the world to gather to experience “the unity and universality of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Miriam Lorie, 35, was recently appointed as a “rabbi in training” in the town of Borehamwood, UK.

A mosque, synagogue and church—part of a colossal interfaith complex in the UAE

Argentine authorities are encouraged by the change they see from the influence of evangelical programs that are quelling violence and crime in correctional facilities.

Throughout the United States, a battle is taking place for continued access to sacred sites and their protection in perpetuity.

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed and held in solitary confinement for eight days along with other organizers of the Good Friday nonviolent protest. Their purpose was to draw attention to intolerable and unchanging conditions in Birmingham, Alabama.

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, one of South Africa’s most enduring voices for social change and poverty alleviation.

A little-known Sikh-American faith-based environmental organization calls for action to confront the world’s ecological problems.

United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announces an initiative to enhance coordination, collaboration and action among government agencies and departments.

Salvation Army in Britain is turning to an innovative, high-tech form of lodging for the homeless.

When an outdoor statue of the Buddha at a Buddhist center in the United States required a major restoration, monks at the center got help from an unexpected source.

Study suggest high levels of charity by American Muslims may in part reflect “efforts to fight Islamophobia.”

Foundations for Farming, a Christian nonprofit in Africa, uses an eco-friendly method of cultivating crops.

Modern-day slavery in the UK worsened despite the pandemic, according to a report released in October 2021.

According to a 2016 study, religion contributes an average of $1.2 trillion every year to the U.S.—a sum greater than the combined annual revenues of the world’s 10 leading tech companies.

Raboteau’s pioneering work on the history and religious experience of American slaves changed the way Black culture and religion are studied in America.

An Orthodox Jewish sailor and three Muslim colleagues have challenged U.S. Navy policy that allows sailors to wear beards for medical reasons but not religious ones.

A Muslim cleric in Oklahoma City was overcome with emotion by a Jewish teen’s gesture of love and empathy.

A nomadic Tibetan tribe and Buddhist monks protest a government plan to build a hydroelectric project that could destroy monasteries and temples in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India.

The Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah may have been inspired by a cosmic collision on Earth in 1650 B.C.

Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle is founder of Homeboy Industries, one of the world’s largest gang intervention and rehabilitation programs.

A choir featuring members of 65 churches and ministries across the United Kingdom came together virtually in the height of the pandemic to record their own version of a new song.

Pope Francis is setting the stage for an unprecedented overhaul of the power structure within the Roman Catholic Church—a change aimed at reforming the institution’s hierarchical decision-making mechanism by replacing it with a decentralized system of authority.

The world’s three top Christian leaders have made an unprecedented joint appeal on climate change to members of their churches.

A panel of journalists and scholars speak of the impact of 9/11 on American Muslims.

After meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in private September 12, in a speech at an outdoor Mass attended by tens of thousands, Pope Francis urged inclusion.

As American troops evacuate Afghanistan, a Christian group warns of dire consequences for Afghan Christians.

As objects of religious devotion and worship, few cultural icons anywhere can rival the roughly three dozen monumental statues of Jesus Christ built over nearly a century across the planet.

Jalue Dorje, high school freshman from Minnesota, hopes to become an apostle of peace.

Jonathan Roumie, a devout Roman Catholic, has been inspired in his portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth in the television series The Chosen by Pope Francis’s vision of mercy.

Marc Lieberman, a San Francisco ophthalmologist who organized dialogue between the Dalai Lama and American Jewish leaders and restored the eyesight of thousands of Tibetans, died August 2 at 72.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has updated its official handbook, calling on members to extend support to refugees.

A historic decision by the State Administrative Court of Appeal of Bavaria rules that requiring the signing of a controversial “sect filter ” to receive a grant for an e-bike violates the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.

An American family has taken to the Colorado wilderness to focus public attention on human rights abuse occurring 6,700 miles away in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province, home to the minority Muslim Uyghur community.

Pope Francis initiates World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, urging people everywhere to reach out to older generations.

The Church of England has revealed plans to apologize, for the first time since it was established in 1534 , for the 1222 expulsion of Jews from medieval England.

A Catholic cleric who is among roughly two-dozen deaf priests worldwide is on a mission to change the perception of deafness so it is treated as a culture not a disability.

As in 2020, foreigners eager to perform Islam’s holiest pilgrimage, the Hajj, will not be permitted to enter the kingdom of Saudi Arabia because of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic.

As India braces for a third wave of COVID-19 infections, faith-based Sikh nongovernment organizations are providing life-saving oxygen concentrators free of cost to people who have trouble breathing.

“The narrow view that top films provide of the Muslim community is one that must shift and grow to ensure that Muslims are not only represented on screen, but that their stories can connect with and inspire audiences around the world,” new study shows.

The United States Senate has confirmed the son of Pakistani immigrants as a federal judge, marking the first time in the nation’s history that a Muslim has become a Federal District Court judge.

A Buddhist monastery affiliated with His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is intensifying a fundraising campaign to build a one-of-a-kind library, learning center and museum on its estate in Ithaca, New York, devoted to promoting human values and religious harmony.

Pastor of the Church of Scientology Nashville and vice president of Religion Communicators Council (RCC) Board of Governors, Brian Fesler is a decades-long veteran in the art of making religion meaningful across religious and cultural divides.

These challenges can only be addressed by political leaders coming together with a genuine desire to find solutions. they say.

The death of Duke of Edinburgh at age 99 on Easter Friday led to an outpouring of grief across the world.

After a year contending with COVID-19 and regulations preventing the gathering of friends and extended families, for Passover this year, with coronavirus infections plummeting, the country has eased restrictions and families are celebrating together once again.

Eight years before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech where he shared his dream for America, that dream was born in the city of Montgomery, Alabama.

A United Nations General Assembly resolution calls for greater efforts to protect religious sites from acts of violence.

Quakers relentlessly championed the rights of every man and woman to live free.

A quiet, tired seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus propelled the U.S. civil rights movement into wide public view, Rosa Parks was also a religious woman whose faith prompted her defiant action in 1955.

Every year, on the third Sunday in January people of myriad cultures and backgrounds come together on World Religion Day in celebration of the commonality of faiths throughout the world.

Last month’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU outlaws the ritual slaughter called for in Muslim and Orthodox Jewish law.

A powerful instance of community harmony and unity unfolded in Arkansas just as the year was ending in the midst of the most subdued Christmas in living memory.

A growing number of U.S. universities, struggling to cope with financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, are cutting academic programs on the study of religion.

Across much of the United States, religious groups are taking offering reparations to African Americans.

The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago made history December 12 by electing its first African American and first woman bishop, Rev. Paula E. Clark.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the celebration of Hanukkah, which began December 10 this year, throughout the world, the joy of the festival shines through.

Through research, teaching, and public engagement the Center seeks to resolve complex global challenges to peace.

The Southeast Asia Freedom of Religion or Belief Conference (SEAFoRB), an annual assembly of religious freedom advocates, human rights groups, academics and policymakers, resumed its 2020 series of webinars today in Bangkok, Thailand.

Orthodox Jewish runner, Beatie Deutsche, winner of Israel’s national marathon championship in 2019, won’t be competing in the Tokyo Olympics unless the IOC changes their decision and holds the women’s marathon any other day but Saturday.

In any ordinary year, the Church of Scientology Nashville holds a special service to observe International Religious Freedom Day, open to members of all faiths or none. But this is no ordinary year.

Facing intense pressure from faith leaders across Europe’s Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as parliamentarians, national representatives, scholars and civil society, the European Commission has decided to restore the position of Special Envoy to promote Freedom of Religion or Belief

As the Black Lives Matter movement swept the country and inspired worldwide protest, two academics specializing in religion and community life addressed what churches can do to confront and reverse racial injustice.

Under the motto “Faith. Freedom. For All,” the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) “brings people together” to tackle three threats to religious liberty in America.

One in four Americans reports their faith has become stronger as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a nationwide survey.