(RNS) — Religions for Peace, the annual international interfaith conference, began Monday in a new hybrid format after virtual meetings in recent years due to the coronavirus pandemic. (RNS) — ...

全国宗教工作会议12月3日至4日在北京召开。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平出席会议并发表重要讲话，强调要全面贯彻新时代党的宗教工作理论，全面贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针，全面贯彻党的宗教信仰自由政策，坚持我国宗教中国化方向 ...

This reading features thematic comparisons among texts of the great world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confuciansm, Christianity, Daoism, Islam, Judaism and Shinto. The purpose is not to compare ...

Since 2015 I have been traveling America and speaking globally in an attempt to bring people of different faiths closer together. My particular area of focus is explaining the common stereotypes that ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, called on Monday for ensuring systematic efforts to further adapt religions in China to the Chinese context and ...

Bahá'ís believe that there is only one real religion, which is the religion of God. The different faiths we see in the world are different approaches to that religion. From the beginning, Bahá'u'lláh ...

Note (June 2025): Our new report “How the Global Religious Landscape Changed from 2010 to 2020” includes revised 2010 religious composition estimates at the country, regional and global levels. Refer ...

Some describe religions as only superficially similar, but fundamentally incompatible. Different religions have their unique way of diagnosing human issues and suggesting contrasting remedies. Many ...

Religious beliefs of the peoples of the Silk Road changed radically over time and was largely due to the effects of travel and trade on the Silk Road itself. For over two thousand years the Silk Road ...

I started this blog ("Toward a Less Egoic World") to focus on two central themes – first, that many of the personal and social problems that plague human life are rooted in people's pervasive tendency ...

Death is one of the most important things that religions deal with. All faiths offer meaning and explanations for death and dying; all faiths try to find a place for death and dying within human ...