Becky Garrison explores what's really going on with the growth of atheist churches.

In the aftermath of contested elections, Nayma Qayum looks at the origins of continuing tensions in Bangladesh and a...

Rowan Moore Gerety travels to northern Mozambique to visit the granite caves of Mulide that served as both church...

Irina Papkova takes us on a tour of the religious centers that lie at the heart of Lebanon's Armenian...

By Maurice Chammah In Glen Rose, Texas, the director of a small Creation Evidence Museum expounds on his...

By Maurice Chammah The popular image of Egypt split by religious and political loyalties belies a subtle story of...

By Alex Thurston A ceasefire between the Nigerian authorities and Boko Haram in early July brought short-lived hopes for...

In Pakistan, polling is over and the votes have been counted but the voice of one group has not...

On April 13, Carmen Weinstein, leader of Egypt’s dwindling Jewish community, died at her home in Cairo. She was...

Following the publication of a new translation of Sonallah Ibrahim's "That Smell," Maurice Chammah considers the book, and its...

The Russian Orthodox Church is a privileged institution very much at the forefront of Russian life, with a well-developed...

By Saba Imtiaz A violent mob ransacked and burned the homes of more than a hundred Christian families in...

By Natasja Sheriff The latest news on religious freedom, at home and abroad, provides the focus of this week's...

Protests in Ethiopia could have profound ramifications for Muslim-state relations in Ethiopia and beyond, writes Alex Thurston in the...

Secularism has been a central part of dominant Syrian ideology since at least the 1960s, writes Irina Papkova, but...

In the first of two posts on the deterioration of religious freedom for Ethiopia's Muslims, Alex Thurston looks at...

Meera Subramanian The people on the streets of Delhi, are saying: We won’t disappear.

By Natasja Sheriff On breaking the deafening silence surrounding two international human rights and climate change events.

By Natasja Sheriff From Tibet, Burma and India, the first of a weekly round-up of religion-related news from around...

From Beirut, Irina Papkova describes in the second of two posts how former political opponents are maintaining Lebanon's fragile...

"The relationship between Lebanon and Syria is intricate and complicated, and the chaos in Syria presents serious challenges for...

By Alex Thurston During the week of September 24, Saudi Arabian authorities detained and subsequently deported over 1,000...

By Austin Dacey The claims of the believer and the claims of the blasphemer, so-called, are symmetrical.The value motivating...

by Austin Dacey The trick with monotheisms is that competition comes not just from neighboring gods, but even from...