Religion
Our ongoing coverage of faith and religion — and its influence on important issues around the globe.
With funding from The Henry Luce Foundation.
Politics
PRI's The World
November 14, 2016
A church in Washington DC, where members have been troubled by the US election results, says it will offer "sanctuary" to those who feel threatened under Donald Trump's administration.
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
September 08, 2016
Valarie Kaur became an activist 15 years ago on 9/11. Today, her heart is breaking, but here’s how she finds hope.
Lifestyle & Belief
PRI's The World
September 08, 2016
Republican politicians, including many US governors and the presidential nominee Donald Trump, want to close the door to Syrian refugees. But many conservative Christians say that, on this issue, the politicians are wrong.
Development & Education
PRI's The World
August 26, 2016
Guatemala is reported to be the most evangelical country in the Americas. And, according to the Pew Research Center, it has the highest rate of believers that faith reaps success. Almolonga, a small mountain town, is held up as proof.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
August 22, 2016
A French American reporter returns to her hometown in Burgundy and is struck by how medieval bells still dictate the pace of life there.
Conflict & Justice
Agence France-Presse
August 11, 2016
When Pope Francis saw the plight of refugees coming to Europe, stranded on the shores of Greece, he wanted to do something. He brought 21 of them to live at the Vatican.
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
August 10, 2016
Persecuted by ISIS, chased out of Iraq, the Yazidis have suffered a lot. And that was before they got to Greece, where other refugees, mostly Muslims, are still persecuting them.
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
July 13, 2016
Syrian Christian refugees are living with Syrian Muslim refugees in Germany. And some Christians say they're being harassed.
Arts, Culture & Media
America Abroad
July 07, 2016
The 90s series of rock festivals, known as The Tibetan Freedom Concert, was a result of a random encounter between a 23-year-old American activist and Adam Yauch.
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
July 07, 2016
Reverend Lee Wesley of the Community Bible Baptist Church is part of an interfaith group that’s calling for a broad and transparent investigation into the killing of Alton Sterling.
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Lifestyle & Belief
Breakaway Buddhists take aim at the Dalai Lama
PRI's The World
October 31, 2014
The Dalai Lama prohibits his followers from praying to what he considers the malevolent deity of Dorje Shugden. But adherents of this practice, many of them western converts, say the Tibetan religious leader is guilty of persecution.
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Lifestyle & Belief
The French want to make society safe for religion by banning so-called cults
PRI's The World
July 12, 2014
In France, government-funded agencies help people save their loved ones from so-called cults. But that list includes groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses and, not too long ago, Baptists. Some of them are now fighting back in courts.
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Lifestyle & Belief
German atheists seek recognition for 'Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster'
PRI's The World
February 23, 2015
Updated
Church membership in Germany has been on the decline in recent decades. But an atheist from the town of Templin believes organized religion still has unfair advantages in German society.
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Lifestyle & Belief
A Texas imam says Muslims are better off ignoring this woman's anti-Islamic hate group — and others like it
PRI's The World
May 04, 2015
After a "Muhammad cartoon contest" came under attack over the weekend, Texas imam Omar Suleiman is glad he and other Muslim leaders urged their followers to leave the event alone. Ignoring extremists — both the anti-Muslim crowd and radical Islamists alike — is the best policy, he says.
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Lifestyle & Belief
What I learned growing up with a devout Hindu mom — and an atheist dad who made fun of her
PRI's The World
January 22, 2015
Deepak Singh grew up in India listening to his parents needle each other about their beliefs, and it left him confused over what to think about religion.
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Lifestyle & Belief
For devout Muslim cabbies in New York City, parking tickets are the price of prayers
PRI's The World
December 13, 2013
Muslims are required to pray five times a day — at specific times, no matter what they're doing. For New York City's Muslim cab drivers, roughly half of the 40,000 people driving cabs, that means stopping their cabs wherever they are to pray.
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Conflict & Justice
The so-called Islamic State is even worse than you thought
PRI's The World
December 23, 2014
A seasoned war correspondent who thinks he's seen it all negotiates his way into ISIS-controlled Mosul. What he finds is a chilling enthusiasm for killing.
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Conflict & Justice
'Inshallah' — it's more than just a phrase that gets you in trouble on a plane
PRI's The World
April 19, 2016
Southwest Airlines now says the college student it removed from a flight was ejected because another passenger believed he had made "threatening comments," including using the term "inshallah" — Arabic for "God willing."
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Development & Education
How to avoid closing your school for Muslim holidays — end Christian and Jewish ones, too
The Takeaway
November 15, 2014
Public schools in Montgomery Country, Maryland, recently ended all religious holidays — at least in name — rather than adding Muslim ones to the school calendar. But is the practice of giving religious holidays off in public schools even legal in the first place?
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Lifestyle & Belief
Halal BBQ: It’s what’s for iftar in this suburb of Houston
PRI's The World
June 25, 2015
A Muslim convert from the Houston area was appalled that many of his friends had never tried real Texas BBQ, because it wasn’t halal. So, he and a partner have started selling “authentic halal Texas BBQ” out of truck near Sugar Land, Texas.