Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...

The church acknowledges three creeds: the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene-Constantinople Creed and the Athanasian Creed.

History educators must reevaluate how to teach the subject to empower students to sit with historical tensions.

Politically and theologically, young U.S. priests are more likely to identify as conservative or moderate than their clerical ...

Before the revolution, the Roman Catholic Church estimated 90% of the population was Catholic. The church now puts that estimate at about 60%, but recent data indicates it could be even lower.

Discover India’s most hauntingly beautiful cemeteries—quiet sanctuaries where colonial echoes, forgotten legacies, and ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions, anyone ...

A new book follows Lyman Beecher, his boundary-pushing children, and their grand ambitions to improve the world.

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

The Rev. James Kelly, a venerable figure in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, has marked an extraordinary dual milestone, ...