On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Boston’s Old North Church, founded in 1723.

Converts make up 8% of U.S. Catholics. The remaining 92% of U.S. Catholics were raised in the faith and still identify with ...

For decades, the Gnostic Gospels were widely believed to have been a library of ancient texts hidden away to protect their ...

Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its ...

An outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has global public health officials scrambling to contain the relevant virus, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday the scale and speed of the deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda “warrants serious concern,” as healthcare ...

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown to nearly 500 suspected cases and 116 deaths, the United Nations said Monday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

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The many paths by which the religion flourished across Asia. The arrows represent the general spread of Buddhism, often via trade routes, throughout Asia, beginning around the fourth century ...

The resignation of the UN High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, has exposed deep divisions among key international actors over the future of international oversight in the ...

Scholars say American history is more Christian than secular advocates claim — and less religious than Christian nationalists would assert. A look at the complicated, contested history of America as a ...

At least 11 passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are reported to have the Andes strain of hantavirus. Of the 18 Americans who were on board and are now in quarantine facilities in the U.S., at ...