(RNS) — Most Americans believe religious liberty is a good thing and would be scandalized to know how some religious leaders, and even political leaders, are actively distorting its meaning to expand ...

In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised. Christianity and Buddhism have experienced especially large losses from this ...

(Sightings) — Millions of Americans are leaving church. Fewer than half now belong to a congregation, down from two-thirds for much of the last century. One in four now say they never attend services, ...

Depending on where you live, criticisms of religious beliefs could yield a range of consequences ranging from social scorn to outright execution. Are people living in the West free to criticize ...

The merest acquaintance with the humans on planet Earth and their religions immediately raises two questions: (1) Why are there so many religions? and (2) Why are religious people so immune to data ...

Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

I certainly understand why many wonderful people hate religion. I know intelligent and compassionate people who use the word “religion” as a synonym for superstition, hierarchy and every form of ...

Light shines through the doors of Zionskirche, a Protestant church in Berlin. (Busà Photography/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine rates of religious ...

MEANTIME, THE LEGAL COMMUNITY IN PALM BEACH COUNTY IS USING UNITY TO COMBAT ALL THE UNREST ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND AROUND THE WORLD. PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT FAITHS GATHERED TO CELEBRATE THE JEWISH HOLIDAY ...