Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they die?

An AP photographer captured a visual story about Father Spyridon, the monk depicted in the image, using the clouds to give ...

(Feb. 6, 2019) -- Do children raised by religious parents have better social and psychological development than those raised in non-religious homes? In a new study, UTSA researchers found that ...

surviving when Byzantine emperors banned the use of religious images. A depiction of Christ, the Virgin Mary, archangels and apostles was chopped into pieces and sold on the black market in the ...

Others resisted Christianity, as, at best, an insufficient replacement for their traditional African religion and a tool of white domination. And still others were coaxed into Christendom ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

(Busà Photography/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine rates of religious switching in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin ...

One of the alums, in his late 40s then, came to us and professed the benefits of religion and spirituality to us. We were 25 then and thought that the man had lost his senses. We wished him well.

(RNS) — The religious freedom watchdog urged the new Trump administration to appoint a new ambassador-at-large to address religious restrictions and persecution around the world. (RNS ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...