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Africa represents the fastest-growing part of the Catholic Church. The pope’s 2026 journey will stop in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Algeria and Angola.
Denmark’s ‘parallel societies’: how the Nordic welfare state came to label its housing estates ‘ghettos’.
During his visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV met several leaders of Christian communities and worked to promote cooperation between Christians and Muslims.
The Trump administration is threatening military action in Nigeria, saying record numbers of Christians are being killed there.
In Greg Sheridan’s latest book, “pagan” Rome is a straw man, against which he posits early Christianity as the loving and brave hero.
The German peasants were among the first to try to unlock the revolutionary potential of Reformation teachings to fight social and economic injustice.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before.
A scholar of religion and migration writes about the long-standing tensions among Christians regarding their moral obligations to those more or less closely connected to them.
Social identity is key to decision making for the Ghanaian voter
In the future, a program like AI Jesus could be used to hear confessions around the clock. But with no experience of having a human body, it cannot engage or absolve human sins.
The history of Black religious life in the US includes people of all faiths using their beliefs to fight for social justice.
His recent remarks about Christians never having to vote again may have been misunderstood – but they are telling nonetheless.
Lebanon’s precarious sectarian balance is tipping as militias take hold again.
Events that the media describe as ‘apocalyptic’ reflect changing anxieties about the future.
For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender identities.
Many Christian and Muslim families in Gaza today were displaced following the creation of new Arab and Jewish states. Today, Palestinian Christians occupy a complicated place in this region.
Investigating supernatural claims is a delicate task for the church, and Catholic leaders rarely label them as authentic.
Some conservative Christians have taken to claiming ‘victim’ status in the modern world, but we should be wary of such claims.
Pentecostals agree on the importance of the Holy Spirit – but not necessarily on what it empowers them to do.
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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