Research has shown that claims of increased church attendance, particularly among young people, ‘may be misleading’ ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

Daniel Cox of the American Enterprise Institute agrees that we are not at an inflection point of religious awakening. He cites flat or waning attendance rates for churches, especially the recent ...

Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy.

From a subcontinent impoverished by centuries of exploitative and often brutal colonial rule, India is today once again the ...

Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.

As Father’s Day approaches, many will pause to honor paternal love, sacrifice, and legacy. But beneath the surface of celebratory messages and traditional neckties lies a sobering national reality: a ...

The present SIR exercise appears to rely heavily on administrative assumptions than on demographic understanding, making it ...

The previous article on Chittagong highlighted its nature as a frontier town in Harikela. The Markandeya Purana, one of the ...

(RNS) — The survey found the religiously unaffiliated nearly doubled or saw even larger gains in every country.

(RNS) — Ryan Burge calls it 'trying to put smoke in a box' — mapping religious decline when people can't explain their own choices and churches won't die on schedule.

When the Pew Research Center asked Mainers in 2023 and 2024 what religions they followed, the most common answer wasn’t Catholicism or Evangelical Protestantism. It was “nothing in particular.”  But ...