This Pew Research Center analysis looks at reasons why people identify as Protestant or switch into or out of Protestantism. It is part of a broader report that focuses on patterns in religious ...

LINDEN, Va. — In the waves of turbulence that rippled throughout the Catholic Church in the 1970s, the nuns of St. Dominic’s Monastery found themselves forced to leave their longtime home in Wisconsin ...

Christianity has experienced some of the largest losses from religious switching of any faith group around the world.

Pew focused on movement between Catholicism and Protestantism in 24 countries.

A new “ecclesiological think tank” offers a valuable but incomplete summary. What is the church? Though the question has dogged Christians since the Book of Acts, there has been something of a renewal ...

Protestants are no longer a majority in the USA 'Nones' are second only to Catholics as a category One in five Americans (19.6%) are 'Nones' For decades, if not centuries, America's top religious ...

MALMO, Sweden-- Pope Francis traveled to secular Sweden on Monday to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a remarkably bold gesture given his very own Jesuit religious order was ...

“I not only don’t believe in voicing prejudice,” said President Eisenhower at his press conference last week, “I want to assure you that I feel none. And I am sure that Mr. Nixon feels exactly the ...

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Nearly all Protestant churches in Algeria have been forced to close, pushing thousands of Christians into private homes and ...

The popular understanding of the founding of the Church of England was that lusty old King Henry VIII wanted to marry his pretty little mistress. The Pope wouldn’t grant him a divorce, so Henry sent ...

Many Houstonians will celebrate this three-day Labor Day weekend by racing to Galveston beaches, hitting the malls for sales or making a fast getaway by plane. But for every stop for beer or gas, ...