Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations. “You’re being watched by a demonic human,” said the fake ...

Religion has played a pivotal role in shaping the beliefs, values, and cultures of societies around the world. A recent 2025 study, MyCross analysed the common faiths in the world to identify which ...

Evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi explains why Japan’s indigenous religion lacks a transcendent notion of God. Christianity Today speaks with Yoichi Yamaguchi, director of the International Mission ...

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should ...

Light shines through the doors of Zionskirche, a Protestant church in Berlin. (Busà Photography/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine rates of religious ...

The proportion of non-religious people in America is growing in every U.S. state except South Dakota, new research suggests. Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing the ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A broad array of religious and political leaders across the country issued outpourings of support for former President Jimmy Carter following news of his death, heaping praise on ...

In March, I drove with my family up from Rome into the mountains of southeastern Umbria, to reach the town of Norcia and the monastery — now an abbey; it’s been promoted since our visit — of St.

Brooke Walker grew up in an Arizona church community. Families, side by side, in communion with God and each other. But the church, she says, was actually a cult. Walker spent her formative years, ...