As early as the 1540s, Jesuit missionaries came to Japan. The new faith spread rapidly among Japanese from all walks of life, with over 100,000 converts. But beginning in 1587, the ruling Shoguns ...

In the scramble to understand the numerous cultural currents that are constantly running through the United States, one of the most instructive ideas to emerge in recent years has come from political ...

Christians are the world’s largest religious group, and they are a majority in every region except the Asia-Pacific and Middle East-North Africa regions. But they are shrinking as a share of the ...

(RNS) — Mike Pence praised the Christian action film as a 'cautionary tale' that should 'inspire people of faith to do even more to protect religious freedom in America.' (RNS) — In the dead of night, ...

O n a recent Sunday in Canton, Georgia, a group of American Christians found themselves on a mission. It was a very specific mission, though like many missions these days, it had merch. It had live ...