A new study reveals Australian teenagers do not relate to established ideas on religion and spirituality. Instead, they fall into six broad groups and show great tolerance for others' ideas. This-worldly, Indifferent, Spiritual but not religious, Seekers, Nominally religious, Religiously committed

Despite closing churches and synagogues, killing thousands of priests and imprisoning clergy, a majority of the Soviet Union's people remained religiously faithful.

According to an ancient Chinese proverb, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Very often, we focus not on those initial small steps but on giant leaps, often undertaken by government. Think, for example, of Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Social Security into law in 1935, a giant step that changed the lives of the elderly. Or Lyndon B. Johnson’s signature on the Medicare law 30 years later that did the same.

Americans still have a religious impulse, but it's increasingly being channeled into politics.

Fewer than half of Americans belong to a house of worship, a new study shows, but religion – and Christianity in particular – continues to have an outsize influence in US politics, especially because it is declining faster among Democrats than Republicans.

Elizabeth Hunter says she became suicidal after Bob Jones University administrators grilled the former student about her sexuality for tweeting “happy Pride” and writing a book with lesbian characters. She was fined, sent to anti-gay counseling and removed from her job at the campus TV station. Veronica Penales says she’s told officials at Baylor University, where she is a sophomore, that people leave anti-gay notes on her door, but they don’t investigate. Lucas Wilson said he graduated from Liberty University with “a profound sense of shame” after being encouraged to go to conversion therapy.

It's the first time the poll indicates a majority of Americans do not belong to a church.

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Pope Francis led Palm Sunday services in an almost empty St. Peter's Basilica because of coronavirus restrictions for the second consecutive year and said the devil is taking advantage of the pandemic.

Robert Aaron Long, 21, charged with murdering eight victims, six of whom were Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, told police that he carried out the killings to eliminate the temptations that fed his sexual addiction. His church, Crabapple First Baptist Church, in Milton, Georgia, which opposes sex outside of marriage, issued a statement condemning the shootings as "unacceptable and contrary to the gospel."

Religion is going through a silent crisis, likely a transformative one. The word “religion” has been derived from the latin verb “re-ligare”, which means to “re-connect” or “re-bind”. The term originally implied reconnecting or rebinding with “God”.

Christians long held a monopoly on virtue—until Pierre Bayle made the case for moral atheists, using comets and aliens.

In recent decades, a number of studies have found that being religious can be good for your health. People who regularly attend services are less likely to smoke, may be less likely to use drugs or be obese and may live longer than those who don’t attend services. Those findings have led some to conclude that, if religion is good for you, being an atheist will be bad for your health.

It is estimated that at the beginning of the 20th century about 67% of the population in Germany were Protestants. However, the Catholics were strong in some areas such as in Bavaria. The Jews formed just under 1 per cent of the total population of Germany.

The Qanon conspiracy movement is cross-pollenating with evangelical Christianity, and experts on extremism are worried about an increasingly radicalized religious movement.

Three Polish women have been found not guilty of offending religious feelings over posters depicting the Virgin Mary with a rainbow halo. The activists displayed the images in 2019 in response to an Easter display describing "gender" and "LGBT" as sins. The icon used in the artwork, "Our Lady of Czestochowa", is revered by many Polish Catholics.

Twenty-seven percent of white evangelicals said it was "mostly" or "completely" accurate to say that Trump "has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites."

Nationwide lockdowns and school closings have broken routines and left ultra-Orthodox Jews time for questioning and self-discovery. Some found the examined life worth leaving.

Scott Lively, a longtime anti-LGBTQ pastor, has claimed that God allowed former President Donald Trump to lose the 2020 election because of Trump's alleged support of the LGBTQ agenda. Despite Lively's claim, most national and international LGBTQ rights groups consider Trump to be the most anti-LGBTQ president of all time.

Over one-third of young adults said they are atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular," according to a report from the American Enterprise Institute.