At a Religion News Service symposium, faith leaders and journalists heard panels on what faith means in a digital age – and who holds the power to shape it?

Brandeis Professor of Anthropology Jonathan Anjaria will co-lead new research under a $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust. The funding will support a three-year multi-faceted ...

A recent Pew Research Center survey shows that about seven-in-ten Americans identify with a religion. Seven-in-ten Americans also believe in an afterlife. And about half of Americans say that parts of ...

The view north across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, is usually clearest this time of year soon after Derby. Our patch of America, claimed as part of upper Louisiana by French Catholics, is ...

NOTE: This story has been updated. For complete version, click here. Catholics around the world are wondering who the papal conclave will elect as pope – and what name the new pontiff will choose for ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

Famed for their “passivity” and “unquestioning acceptance of rules laid down by elders” as well as their fundamentalist, uncompromising outlook, the Saudis are intensely proud, but by and large, have ...