The Department of Defense moved this week to reduce the number of recognized religions, faiths and belief systems from more ...

Religions That Require Fasting as a Pillar of FaithFasting is one of the oldest spiritual practices in human history. Across ...

(RNS) — The fast-evolving list was met with blowback from critics who suggested its changes were an attempt to impose ...

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The new policy, which the Pentagon framed as a largely administrative action, leaves just 31 religious categories to choose ...

As of 2020, people who identify with a religion make up about 76% of the world’s population, according to a new Pew Research Center study on global religious change. This is down by about 1 percentage ...

While the number of Americans who were raised in homes where parents had different religions appears to be growing, relatively few think of themselves as having been brought up in more than one ...

Anila Ali traces her interest in the interfaith movement to scripture. "God says in the Koran to Muslims," she says, "I have created you into tribes—different tribes—so that you may get to know each ...

The history of human spirituality may be as old as humanity itself, yet the formation of organized religions is a more recent phenomenon. The oldest religions in the world have shaped cultures, laws, ...

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 ...