Once viewed as peripheral players, Protestant churches have risen over the past two decades to become influential actors in ...

Whether mainline Protestant warmth toward the new pope is a result of convergence on social justice issues or pride in the ...

Afrikaners don’t fit any definition of refugee,' said the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

As Edmund Burke put in his 1775 “Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies,” religion had a direct impact: “The people are Protestants; and of that kind which is the most adverse to all ...

This is roughly on par with what we found in the 2014 RLS, using the same definition of switching. At that time, 34% of Americans were categorized as having switched religions when Protestantism was ...

In this, they sought to define themselves ... (which signifies rootedness in beliefs and traditions authentically traceable to Christ and his apostles). For Protestants, he argues, ancient depth ...

Today, although few laymen are aware of it, more than 60,000 women, mostly in Europe, have taken up the religious life within Protestantism, in organizations that range from convents of veiled ...

Highlights: ¶ “Belgium is a lay state which is benevolently neutral towards religion.” The government gives financial subsidies to Roman Catholics, Protestants and Jews, but no attempt is ...

However, the transformed socio-political landscape in present-day Croatia has granted Protestant religious communities a legislative framework for their existence and operations, notably enhancing ...

Americans from diverse religious backgrounds view curiosity about religion as morally virtuous – a trend which was consistent across Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, and other Christian ...

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Christianity as "the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as Sacred Scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies." ...