After years of playing down or even ceding the message of faith and values to Republicans, Democratic presidential candidates are trying to reclaim it in the 2020 election, sharing their own personal faith stories
The G20 Interfaith Forum, which seeks to build bridges between faith communities and the economic leaders of the G20 leaders, has a good vision for the future. But it might need to take a different path in order to more quickly achieve its goals.
In the aftermath of 1999’s Columbine massacre, American media and politicians focused on the secret world of delinquent youth and how they might be saved.
Critics of a Missouri House bill that would allow elective courses on the Bible raise sectarian concerns and whether the bill is needed.
(RNS) — The future of a decades-old CBS documentary series focused on religion is in doubt, as the network is potentially discussing cutting back or even ending a stream of faith-related segments that CBS has run since the 1940s.
In recent years, conservatives have contrived various means to obtain access to government money for religious entities, such as schools, and the lawyers representing them are receiving an ever more sympathetic hearing at the Court.
Much has been made of the influx of Chinese money and workers into Africa over the past two decades, as China has become the primary economic partner for the continent. This link is also causing China to import something that it has been trying to
Rising numbers of Americans believe that religious activity can be stopped or pushed entirely into private sanctums without any public cost. Those Americans are mistaken.
(RNS) — People who are active in their religious congregations tend to be happier, a new Pew survey finds. But that advantage doesn’t extend to their waistlines.
A slim majority (51 percent) of U.S. adults said religion is very important in their lives, according to a Gallup report published Dec. 24. With a plus-or-minus 4 percent sampling error, that number could be as high as 55 percent or as low as 47 percent.
