How religious can a country be? Can an entire population strongly align with faith? To explore this question, a global survey was conducted to understand where people feel most closely connected to ...

“How important is religion in your life?” and “What is your current religion?” are two survey questions that have long been used to measure religiousness in individuals and societies. By these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governments around the world are imposing significant restrictions on religion, new research shows, a trend that could have ...

In most of the world, countries with religious populations are more likely to have governments that support religion through laws and policies. These laws might include religious education, funding ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

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(The Conversation) — Protestant churches’ growth in Latin America gets lots of attention, but another important shift is happening, too: people leaving organized religion altogether. (The Conversation ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a new report on Wednesday highlighting the countries with the worst religious persecution in the world. From this report, which ...

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