If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its decline: obsolescence.

In response to the Russian partisan attacks, the Russian army deployed over 30,000 soldiers in border areas where the partisans, both Russian and Ukrainian, were operating. The partisans were numerous ...

This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325)! The word ecumenical comes from the Greek oikoumene (οἰκουμένη), which translates as “the whole inhabited ...

Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these Books as inspired by God.

Evangelical Christians in Switzerland are defying the nationwide decline in religious belief and practice, standing out for ...

Russia continued to persecute pastors and shutter churches within its borders and in territories it occupies in Ukraine, the ...

The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision Friday in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a landmark gender ideology indoctrination case ...

Sociologists of religion present a new edition of one of the most comprehensive empirical studies of religious trends across the world – Detlef ...

Over the past 10 years, the radical ideologues who dominate school boards and educational leadership roles across the country have proved themselves determined to achieve a singular task: convincing a ...

I will publicly wave the banner of his Most Humble and Most Sacred Heart to remind people that in this Heart is the Love that ...

And Tawhid religion is in decline. North America’s 280 Christian seminaries enrolled 78,000 students in the fall of 2022, about 600 fewer than previous year. Declines were among evangelical (-3.2%) ...

Data published in June by Switzerland's Federal Statistical Office shows that fewer people in the Alpine country believe in ...