Religion

Turkey expelled alleged sympathizers of Fethullah Gulen from government jobs after the 2016 coup attempt. Other Islamic sects, and one in particular—the Menzil—are now filling the vacuum.

The Turkish government is imposing its political preferences when it comes to selecting the leaders of the country’s minority groups—and posing a threat to religious freedom.

A new book on the West’s declinist anxiety is a welcome antidote to Islamophobic alarmism, but it could go further in debunking misguided notions of “us” and “them.”

Protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act are rallying Indians of all stripes around their country’s foundational principles.

The U.K. Labour Party’s abject failure to address anti-Semitism has garnered headlines, but hatred of Muslims is even more rampant in Britain—and the prime minister and his party have contributed to making it socially acceptable.

Both houses of parliament have passed a controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims.

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.