In a world marked by escalating tensions and conflicts, the XI World Congress for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue ...

The prediction was wrong. Measles resurged over the next few years, peaking at 27,808 US cases in 1990. The following year a new “MMR” vaccine, for measles, mumps and rubella, became broadly ...

Wikipedia’s failure to maintain a balanced or neutral point of view on Hinduphobia is not an isolated issue. The Rutgers report highlights that while Wikipedia policies are ostensibly intended ...

Buddhism on Wikipedia: Source Credibility Reliable sources and their treatment thus deliver some interesting trends in regard to Buddhism. It is a major world religion with a history that’s rich ...

For some, that is not enough. Old wounds have been reopened: the attempts over the generations to cleanse Indigenous peoples of their heathen ways (read “cultural genocide”) and the more ...

Vodou, an amalgam of Catholicism and animism, was an export from West Africa brought to the New World by enslaved people. It played a crucial part in the revolution that made Haiti the planet’s ...

The contributions of indigenous faiths, much like the indigenous communities themselves, are deeply rooted in the earth and the spiritual needs of its people. From wilderness lore to natural ...

The most populous religion on earth, Christianity is necessarily also one of the most diverse, spanning continents, cultures and races in a kaleidoscope of colors, beliefs and practices as ...

Fourteen countries have Orthodox Christian majorities. On February 15, Greece became the first of them to legalize same-sex civil marriage. A bipartisan majority of 176 members of parliament ...

A team of researchers pours through reams of medical jargon and analyzes successful prevention methods employed in pandemics past. They distill the research into booklets—simple, illustrated how ...

Reiterating the Catholic Church’s denunciation of all manifestations of antisemitism while reaffirming the historic ties among Christians and Jews, Pope Francis has expressed his sorrow to “my ...

Four Roman Catholic bishops have engaged in talks with Mexican drug cartel leaders in an attempt to broker a peace deal, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has expressed his support for ...