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The UK Ahmadiyya Muslim community has recently embraced a more activist stance for religious freedom while expanding worldwide, according to reports.
Tensions between American evangelicals and their European counterparts have simmered for years, but they have recently intensified, mainly over political questions, writes Paul Marshall in Religion Unplugged (July 15).
The recent close elections of conservative populist candidates in Peru and Colombia suggest a new injection of Catholicism into polarized Latin American societies.
The trickle of Catholics moving to the U.S. Southeast has become a steady stream in recent years, resulting in an expansion of Catholic building and infrastructure in this region, reports Gigi Duncan in the National Catholic Register (July 9).
While liberal Democrats have struggled to appeal to religious Americans, “an increasing number of Democratic office holders and candidates in upcoming elections are no longer apologetic about their personal faith.
A new kind of “brainwashing” theory is making the rounds in anti-cult groups and even being employed by governments and courts to target new religious movements (NRMs), write Marco Respinti and Massimo Introvigne in the newsletter Bitter Winter (July 2).
Many of the kinds of groups, leaders, and strategies that were present before major jihadist terrorist attacks in the past, including 9/11, are again finding a following, writes Sara Harmouch in the Terrorism Monitor (July 16).
The day following the episcopal consecrations of four priests by the two remaining bishops of the Society of St.
While Muslim soccer players have entered elite ranks and have long observed their faith on the field and off, this year’s World Cup shows how soccer is no longer “the sole purview of Christendom...[S]occer has peacefully and with little fanfare become a game shared between the world’s two and a h