Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Religious beliefs have been woven into the fabric of human existence for millennia, shaping cultures and guiding personal choices ...

What do we lose when we lose organized religion, which has been in steep decline across the globe since 2007? Two new books offer very different answers — and very different approaches — to this ...

GRAND FORKS — As Jan. 11 approached — the day Emily White, 29, would leave North Dakota for North Carolina to enter the Daughters of the Virgin Mother religious community — her untethering from the ...

Another recent study about psychedelics proclaims these drugs can have a transformative impact on users, though in this case, the impact is not only on psychological health, but spiritual health as ...

James Martin, S.J., addresses the 2025 assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Atlanta on Aug. 14. Credit: LCWR Editors’ notes: James Martin, S.J., delivered the following speech ...

Ryan Burge’s Vanishing Church shows the importance of faith for America. Burge is a sociologist who has carved out a nearly singular online profile as a prominent purveyor of charts and graphs about ...

The tragic terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach happened on the other side of the world, but it could have happened here. In the United States, a nation founded on the promise of ...

On a global level, religious groups expand and shrink due to a mix of factors. Demographic factors, such as age structure, fertility and mortality (or life expectancy), tell us whether people in ...

(RNS) — When it comes to going to church, a generational pattern is playing out in many households around the world: Grandparents never miss Sunday service; parents attend only on holidays; children, ...

Religion, particularly Protestantism, was central to the mission of the country’s first universities. Chapels were constructed at the center of campuses. University presidents, often devout, worried ...