Religion has long been a central aspect of societies worldwide, but its role and importance varies throughout the globe. As industrialization and globalization continue to impact every aspect of life, ...

Europe's youth don't practice Christianity anymore, according to a new European social survey. The Continent was once the home of the majority of the world's Christians, but today many people between ...

Christopher Caldwell has written a very bad book. His argument is internally inconsistent, his history is distressingly selective, and his terminology is uncritically general. Unsurprisingly, the book ...

PARIS (RNS) — Times are getting more difficult for members of minority religions across Europe as nationalism, security fears and anti-immigrant movements gain ground. PARIS (RNS) — A decade ago, ...

In a recent interview, Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO supreme commander, expressed concerns that escalating Sunni-Shia conflicts in Syria and Iraq had the potential to spill over into a “truly ...

Over the last few decades, the number of Muslim immigrants has increased significantly in both the United States and Europe. Like other newcomers before them, these immigrants are seeking a better ...

In 18 nations across Central and Eastern Europe, religion is now essential to national identity. “Believing and belonging, without behaving.” This is how the Pew Research Center summarizes the surge ...

PARIS (RNS) — With its dwindling rates of attendance at religious services and rising numbers of churches shuttered or sold, Western Europe seems to be the region of the world where the outlook for ...

Several instances occur immediately to the most superficial observer of European conditions, in which organized religion would seem to occupy a rôle of paramount importance. Certainly a settlement of ...

A religious freedom case in Finland may place a chilling effect on free speech around the world and underscores the need to protect the freedom of speech and religion, those involved in the legal ...

In the end we are supposed to believe that the question of religion is not the question of race, except that the Jewish “problem” of Europe past is the Muslim “problem” of Europe present. Jews were a ...