Source: Pew Research Center Concentrated in Europe, Orthodox Christians have declined as a percentage of the global population, but Ethiopian community is highly observant and growing Mgvimevi Monastery church, near […]
Source: Time By Joseph F. Coughlin November 8, 2017 IDEAS Coughlin is founder and director of MIT’s AgeLab and the author of The Longevity Economy. There are so many older adults in […]
Source: Pew Research Center Concentrated in Europe, Orthodox Christians have declined as a percentage of the global population, but Ethiopian community is highly observant and growing Georrgia, Imereti region, Chiatura […]
Source: Pew Research Center Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035; people with no religion face a birth dearth More babies were born to Christian […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ABIGAIL GEIGER This year, the Jewish festival of Passover – April 10 to 18 – coincides with the Christian celebration of Easter. And Easter, somewhat unusually, […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DREW DESILVER As Congress and the White House pivot from trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act to overhauling the U.S. tax code, it’s helpful to take a closer […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood; Religion correspondent Most of 43 countries with a state religion are in Middle East and North Africa with majority Muslim, according to research More […]
Source: Pew Research Center National and religious identities converge in a region once dominated by atheist regimes The Cathedral of the Annunciation, a Russian Orthodox church in Cathedral Square in […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY HANNAH FINGERHUT While a large majority of Americans rate police officers positively on a 0-to-100 “feeling thermometer,” whites and blacks differ widely in their views, including […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DREW DESILVER U.S. politicians say they revere the Constitution, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have plenty of ideas for changing it. Since 1999, 742 proposed amendments […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ABBY BUDIMAN AND DREW DESILVER Public debt has increased sharply in many countries in recent years, particularly during and after the Great Recession. Globally, the total amount of […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANTONIO FLORES The Latino population in the United States has reached nearly 58 million in 2016 and has been the principal driver of U.S. demographic growth, accounting for […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER AND RENEE STEPLER In about a third of married or cohabiting couples in the United States, women bring in half or more of the earnings, a […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DOROTHY MANEVICH Supporters of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, top candidate for the conservative Christian Democratic Union party in the upcoming general elections, hold up posters to […]
Source: Pew Research Center About half of Europe’s 2015-16 asylum applicants had decisions still pending at end of 2016 BY PHILLIP CONNOR A refugee child at the Berlin administration facility for […]
Source: Pew Research Center A majority of Americans rely on general outlets for science news but more say specialty sources get the facts right about science BY CARY FUNK, JEFFREY GOTTFRIED AND AMY MITCHELL […]
Dr Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy INDIA and Pakistan have more influential holy men per square mile than anyone has ever counted. Some are just rich, others both powerful and rich. Once upon a time their followers were only the poor, superstitious and illiterate. But after the massive resurgence of religion in […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY GENEIVE ABDO Nearly all Muslim Americans (97%) say they take pride in being a member of the Islamic faith. But their devotion to core religious beliefs […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY CARY FUNK, BRIAN KENNEDY AND ELIZABETH PODREBARAC SCIUPAC The potential genetic modification of humans and its ramifications have long been debated, but a recent scientific breakthrough in gene editing […]
Source: Pew Research Center For American Muslims, being highly religious does not necessarily translate into acceptance of traditional notions of Islam. While many U.S. Muslims say they attend mosque and […]