Religion has long been a central aspect of societies worldwide, but its role and importance varies throughout the globe. As industrialization and globalization continue to impact every aspect of life, ...
Europe is less Christian than at any other time in its modern history. Overall church attendance is in decline, it's increasingly common for Europeans to identify as agnostics or atheists, and, among ...
Europe's youth don't practice Christianity anymore, according to a new European social survey. The Continent was once the home of the majority of the world's Christians, but today many people between ...
Over the last few decades, the number of Muslim immigrants has increased significantly in both the United States and Europe. Like other newcomers before them, these immigrants are seeking a better ...
Religion has played an important role in politics throughout Europe, from France to Turkey, over the past decades. Ray Suarez details his recent travels to Europe, where he was discussing the role of ...
A religious freedom case in Finland may place a chilling effect on free speech around the world and underscores the need to protect the freedom of speech and religion, those involved in the legal ...
The “European Academy of Religion” (EuARe) is coming to Germany for the first time with its annual conference at the end of August. Under the title “Religion and Change”, the conference will see 900 ...
In the end we are supposed to believe that the question of religion is not the question of race, except that the Jewish “problem” of Europe past is the Muslim “problem” of Europe present. Jews were a ...
PARIS (RNS) — Times are getting more difficult for members of minority religions across Europe as nationalism, security fears and anti-immigrant movements gain ground. PARIS (RNS) — A decade ago, ...
In 18 nations across Central and Eastern Europe, religion is now essential to national identity. “Believing and belonging, without behaving.” This is how the Pew Research Center summarizes the surge ...
On an early January morning in 2013, Shehzad Luqman, a 27-year-old Pakistani Muslim living in Greece, was riding his bicycle to work in an Athens suburb when he was violently attacked. Two men ...