In many ways, Lisa Butterworth is the very image of Mormon devotion. She lives in Boise, Idaho, with her husband and their three children younger than 4, faithfully attending church and teaching ...

Merdan Ghappar was put in a prison camp in China for being a Muslim. Pastor Youcef was thrown in jail in Iran for following Jesus and helping others do the same. Twenty-five-year-old Ravinder Singh ...

Religious freedom is under attack everywhere — from Pakistan to Philadelphia, from college campuses to communist China. Every day we hear about infringements on the right to practice faith. Every day ...

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Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The Christmas Eve attacks that, according to official estimates, left more than ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. It took a while, but we finally got there. Six months ago, on the first anniversary of the Post-Dispatch's religion blog, Civil ...

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Evangelical Protestantism (which I was an enthusiastic part of from 1977-1990, and retain many fond memories of and gratefulness for) is known for having lots of slogans and catch-phrases and mantras ...

My family was never terribly religious. We attended church most Sundays, if we were being good, and catechesis on Wednesdays. Faith was part of my everyday life, but it never felt pervasive. It was ...