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

Based on numbers, the third largest group is the religiously unaffiliated. Four principal religions dominate the world. [/tweetit] These four are followed by approximately 80 percent of the world ...

Although every Pope since 1913 has lived in the spacious and elegant Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, Pope Francis decided to continue to live in a two-room apartment in the Vatican guesthouse ...

First in a series of World Religion News articles on great religious leaders of our time. Introduction: The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby is the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury ...

The most noticeable peace of accessory for the traditional Sikhs is the turban or dastar which, according to the Sikh Coalition, symbolizes piety and dedication. Members of the faith also have ...

Ordained as a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of 16 in Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh conceived a form of Buddhism based on mindfulness practices that enable followers to overcome their personal suffering ...

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 ...

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 ...

But why is Nirvana Day so important to Buddhists? Buddhists use Nirvana Day as an occasion for reflecting on one’s future death and their relations to friends and those who have of passed away ...

As a Shiite, al-Sistani is hardly a stranger to persecution. For centuries, his minority sect has been caught in a sectarian war with extremists from the majority Sunni faction. Iraq’s Shiite ...

Featured Contributors Abdur Rab and Hasan Mahmud explain how Sharia Law completely violates clear directives of the Quran. Human oppression is part of the human legacy. Sadly, it’s often the ...

The aforementioned spate of articles most commonly cited only one particular set of numbers from the report, reproducing one chart that focused exclusively on the number of countries in which a ...