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Agnosticism
Robert Smith, a British historian and agnostic, has started a YouTube series to highlight the impact of religion in history. An agnostic man has created a…
Hinduism
After bits and pieces of census data have been announced, official results of the 2011 census are expected to be released soon. The long-awaited data from…
Entertainment
Daniel Estrin, reporting for PRI, commented on the drastically different opinions between France and America regarding religion. France has recently grown a bad reputation when it comes…
Islam
The United States Supreme Court has made a unanimous decision to grant prisoner Gregory Holt the right to keep his beard for religious reasons. Gregory Holt was…
Featured Contributors
Professor Mark R. Cohen delivering a lecture to a seminar room full of professors and graduate students at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (December 2014)…
Islam
Paris attacks add fuel to Europe’s Anti-Islam movements such as PEGIDA, as well as protests in Texas, U.S. After religiously motivated extremist attacks against satirical magazine…
Bahá'í Faith
A man that has been living in Yemen has been tortured and interrogated for being accused of attempting to convert locals to his Baha’i faith. According…
Islam
Duke cancels its Muslim call to prayer after online backlash and threats, but the university ended up hosting it anyway. January 16 was slated to be…
Atheism
A recent article from VICE analyzes the potentially dark future for religion. After a tumultuous 2014, what will 2015 bring for the world’s religions? A recent…
Catholicism
Pope Francis received immense backlash after he claimed that freedom of speech ought to be limited in regards to religion, and he had to clarify his…
Catholicism
Boko Haram has become increasingly deadly recently, but many religious and African leaders question the West’s commitment to solving this terrorist threat. Terrorist attacks by Islamist…
Buddhism
A new study indicates a correlation between wealth and religion. A study published in the research journal Current Biology on December 11, 2014 has hinted toward new…