Religion

The pope is reaching out to indigenous people, and the right aren’t happy.

And the United States should be worried.

The Shiite group has to decide whether it is a resistance movement or part of the establishment.

Despite Hariri’s resignation, public anger won’t be easy to soothe.

This latest battle could be the army’s undoing.

Concentration camps, surveillance, and spies keep the community under tight control.

Tehran may be good at winning influence, but it is bad at ruling after that.

From self-immolations to forest blazes, the country’s conflagrations are igniting pan-sectarian protests.

As political ties flourish, the country is taking tenuous steps to confront its Holocaust history. But it hasn’t gone far enough.

India’s ruling party has long promised justice for Kashmiri Hindus who were forced out of their homes in 1990. But a continuing lockdown is only creating a deeper wedge between Hindus and Muslims.

Italian Catholics are deeply divided between traditionalists and supporters of Pope Francis’s liberal vision. Matteo Salvini is seeking to give the Vatican’s detractors a new political home.

Religious leaders can help convince the most ethnocentric and authoritarian U.S. voters to oppose Washington’s backing of abusive dictators.

Avigdor Lieberman could determine whether Benjamin Netanyahu gets another term. What does he want?   

The youth vote is becoming increasingly important in Argentina, but the leading presidential candidates are deliberately avoiding the issue that matters most to them.

The Shiite group is making inroads with other communities. Here’s how—and why.

Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is an election-winning machine. But its ideology is sharply at odds with economic or social common sense.

The Saudi crown prince’s regional aggression and disdain for human rights have prompted religious scholars and pious pilgrims to refuse to go on the hajj. 

How religious communities in the United States are providing free health care and overcoming anti-immigrant sentiment.

Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, is publicly attacking the pope in a battle for the country’s soul.

The Saudi crown prince vowed to crack down on radical clerics—but the victims have mostly been advocates for moderate Islam.