The number of countries with high or very high social hostilities rose for the third year in a row; government interference ...

How religious can a country be? Can an entire population strongly align with faith? To explore this question, a global survey was conducted to understand where people feel most closely connected to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governments around the world are imposing significant restrictions on religion, new research shows, a trend that could have ...

Religious groups faced harassment in 192 of 198 countries and territories, matching a previous high from 2022.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The San Gregorio al Celio church, right, and the St. John and Paul Basilica are illuminated by the sunset light, in Rome, Thursday ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a new report on Wednesday highlighting the countries with the worst religious persecution in the world. From this report, which ...

(RNS) — The survey marks the first time Pew Research Center asked people outside the United States and Asian countries about practices related to Buddhism, Asian folk religions and New Age ...

U.S. Commission on International Religious chairman stresses that actionable consequences are needed on the ground. U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Chairman Stephen Schneck (photo: ...

New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that atheists in some of the world's most secular countries show an intuitive preference for religious belief over ...

Parishioners attend Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, May 8, 2022. (Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP.) Listen NEW YORK – A new study has found that in ...

New data reveals the countries with the highest government restrictions on religion and where they are rising.