Belief in an afterlife, God and spirits in nature is widespread globally. Older adults are more likely than younger adults to ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday just weeks short of ...

By some measures, the world’s most religious countries are mostly in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan ...

Who will be the next pope? That decision will be made by cardinals who will begin meeting in conclave on Wednesday afternoon ...

Perhaps a revealing question is whether the church will continue the radical novelty Francis brought as a pope from a ...

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope ...

or promoting religion over nonreligion. The First Amendment generally constrains the government but not private entities. St. Isidore, the court wrote, would "require students to spend time in ...

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts appears to hold the key vote over whether the Supreme Court will allow the nation's ...

Muslim population worldwide will surge by a whopping 70 percent in the next 35 years, breaching the 3 billion mark by the ...