Views vary on other ideas, such as recognizing same-sex marriages. Most see Pope Francis as a change in the church’s direction, and he’s broadly popular. Pope Francis is broadly popular in much of ...

Eighty-one percent of Americans say the law should not allow companies or other institutions to use religious beliefs to decide whether to offer a service to some people and not others.

Debates about the impact of religion in the world have been going on for a long time. There is one facet of that debate, ...

I have never accepted irrational religious beliefs. If something in my -- or any -- religion doesn't make sense, I don't accept it. That's why my five-volume commentary on the Torah (the first ...

Atheists are described as people who do not need religious explanations or the promise of an afterlife to see value in the human experience. Exploring whether this way of thinking could be ...

America is one of the most religious countries in the West. About two-thirds of its voters identify as Christian. But - things are changing and the nation has become less devout in the last few ...

(RNS) — Here’s a switch: Young women are less likely to be religious, and young men are less likely to be politically active. (RNS) — For decades, multiple studies have shown that women are ...

Unexpected because a gender gap in religion, where women are more likely to identify with and practice Christianity, has been a consistent feature of the American religious landscape going back ...

Your support makes all the difference. A woman has drawn similarities between Donald Trump’s MAGA movement and the apocalyptic, religious sect she escaped from. In the autumn of 1974 ...

Religion has been one of the oldest reasons for travel in India. While the tourism and hospitality industries are important to the south Asian country’s GDP, leisure travel, specifically makes ...

Sound of Freedom, a thriller about child trafficking, had nothing to do with religion on the surface—but it galvanized ...