A distressing map of religious freedom around the world
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued a report highlighting those it calls the worst violators of religious freedom in the world. Among them are many Asian and Middle...
View ArticleA revealing map of the countries that are most and least tolerant of...
The Pew Research Center, as part of a fascinating new report on global attitudes toward homosexuality, asked people in 39 different countries a deceptively straightforward question: “Should society...
View Article‘I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist’: More Burmese embracing...
Members of Burma’s Buddhist majority, including some of its much-respected monks, are increasingly persecuting the country’s long-suffering Muslim minority and adopting an ideology that encourages...
View ArticleYes, that’s a photo of the pope carrying his own bag (onto his specially...
When Pope Francis embarked Monday morning for Brazil, where he will take an official week-long tour, he raised eyebrows around the world by carrying his own bag up the stairs to his flight out of Rome....
View ArticleReza Aslan on Jesus’s skin color: ‘Megyn Kelly is right. Her Christ is white’
Fox News host Megyn Kelly caused some controversy when she declared, on her Wednesday evening show: "Jesus was a white man, too. It's like we have, he's a historical figure. That's a verifiable fact,...
View ArticleWhy Sunnis and Shiites are fighting, explained in two minutes
The divide between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam is both ancient and still highly consequential today. In Syria, a Sunni-majority country dominated by members of a Shiite sect, fighting that...
View ArticleThe papal peace doves are the perfect metaphor for Pope Francis’s first year
Pope Francis called for peaceful dialogue in Ukraine on Sunday, concluding his remarks by having adorable Italian children release two white doves from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the...
View ArticleDavid Cameron says Britain is a ‘Christian country.’ That’s wrong, even if...
"I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country," British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote last week, "more ambitious about expanding the role of faith-based...
View Article47 saints named Felix, and other canonization facts
Forty-seven saints named Felix, and other canonization facts.
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See Eid al-Fitr preparations around the world
A month of fasting gives way to feasting for Muslims worldwide as Ramadan ends and Eid al-Fitr celebrations begin Friday. Here's a look at the preparations, from selling sweets in Afghanistan and...
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