
Britain ranks among the least religious nations in the world, with just one in five Brits saying that religion is important in their lives. In Europe, only the French have a lower religious affiliation. The findings come in a Pew
by Donna Rachel Edmunds7 Jan 2016, 8:29 AM PST0

Atheists should not feel left out of Christmas celebrations, according to a prominent Catholic priest, who suggests ten reasons the quintessentially Christian feast should matter to everyone–believer and non-believer alike.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.24 Dec 2015, 2:04 PM PST0

In their search for ever more inventive ways to preach the Gospel, evangelizing entrepreneurs have developed a series of phone and tablet applications (apps) that are taking the Christian world by storm.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.24 Dec 2015, 9:04 AM PST0

Anti-Jewish attacks are spiking to record levels across the U.S., Europe and the world (spurred largely by Islamic Jew-hatred). A “moderate” Muslim country, Algeria, has its army marching in drill chanting: “turn your guns towards the Jews in order to
by Pamela Geller22 Dec 2015, 3:50 PM PST0

Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims.
by Mary Chastain16 Dec 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

JAFFA, Israel – The Saudi news media continue to spotlight the story of an America employee at Jeddah’s international airport whose conversion to Islam went viral in the Kingdom last week after video of the event was published.
by Ali Waked12 Dec 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

Mar Mattai, also known as Saint Matthew monastery, sits only 12 miles from Mosul, Iraq, but it provides shelter for numerous Christians who fled persecution from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain9 Dec 2015, 1:27 PM PST0

TEL AVIV – Palestinian terrorist organizations did not take kindly to Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
by Aaron Klein and Ali Waked8 Dec 2015, 2:43 PM PST0

Before the smoke from the terror attack in San Bernardino had cleared, the liberal narrative was turned to an effort to make the murders into a means to attack Christians and those Republican candidates who had offered prayers for the victims and their families.
by Warner Todd Huston3 Dec 2015, 6:22 PM PST0

Brad Pitt is an atheist — because his father instilled a “Christian guilt” in him during his upbringing.
by Daniel Nussbaum29 Nov 2015, 5:07 PM PST0

A progressive climate change alarmist website has an invaluable voting guide for the presidential election: just pick the candidates it rates least highly – and you’re surely backing a winner.
by James Delingpole27 Nov 2015, 10:53 AM PST0

Saudi Arabia Court Sentences Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam
by Mary Chastain20 Nov 2015, 8:02 PM PST0

In the wake of the extraordinarily brutal jihadist attacks perpetrated on innocent civilians in Paris Friday, Yale Professor Miroslav Volf suggests in an article in the Washington Post that we look at religion as a single reality rather than making distinctions between different religions, including Islam and Christianity.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.16 Nov 2015, 12:18 PM PST0

Pope Benedict was universally pilloried by the media for his famous 2006 Regensburg address, in which he commented on the historical relationship between Islam and violence. But now even the mainstream media are finding themselves forced to ask whether Benedict was right, and perhaps even prophetic in his statements.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.16 Nov 2015, 11:56 AM PST0

People around the world sent thoughts and prayers to Paris after three groups carried out a massive terrorist attack. However, Charlie Hebdo artist Joann Sfar drew a cartoon asking people not to pray for France.
by Mary Chastain14 Nov 2015, 1:35 PM PST0

Religious intolerance in secular India continues to grow as hardline Hindus target those they believe are butchering cows, which are sacred to them.
by Mary Chastain12 Nov 2015, 9:18 AM PST0

Due to a single complaint, the Bledsoe county, Tennessee school system has put in place a new ban on the distribution of all religious materials, including the Christian Bible.
by Warner Todd Huston11 Nov 2015, 2:37 PM PST0

A physicist who spent the better part of his career designing rockets is blasting the “pseudoscience” behind a recent study that purportedly showed that atheist children are more altruistic and generous than religious children.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.11 Nov 2015, 5:08 AM PST0

New research published by a team of U.S. neuroscientists claims that children from atheist families exhibit greater generosity and kindness than their religious counterparts, but lumps together a majority of Muslim children with a minority of Christian children under the generic heading of “religious.”
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.9 Nov 2015, 4:53 AM PST0

On November 2, the city council in a small Iowa town voted to remove a temporary memorial to fallen soldiers from a city park. The memorial was removed because an outside atheist group complained to the city that the memorial featured a Christian cross. Only a day after the council voted to remove the memorial, the town voted to remove the council members.
by Warner Todd Huston8 Nov 2015, 6:26 PM PST0

A photo of a Mississippi football player praying for his injured teammate has gained over 5,000 shares and 160 likes on Facebook.
by Mary Chastain5 Nov 2015, 12:56 PM PST0

Former Scientologist and King of Queens star Leah Remini said she has found “amazing” comfort in returning to the Catholic Church after leaving Scientology two years ago, contrasting Scientology’s abusive policies with Christianity.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Nov 2015, 7:38 AM PST0

The complaint of a single citizen caused a city council in Iowa to remove a memorial to soldiers that consists of a silhouette of a kneeling soldier and a cross, reports say.
by Warner Todd Huston3 Nov 2015, 6:14 PM PST0

The largest single religious group in the Democratic Party is now the religiously unaffiliated, or “nones,” a new report by the Pew Research Center reveals.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.3 Nov 2015, 10:22 AM PST0

Evolutionary biologist and celebrated God-slayer Richard Dawkins is expressing his bewilderment at how America can simultaneously be the world leader in the natural sciences while also a strikingly religious nation.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.30 Oct 2015, 9:50 AM PST0