Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, is on March 5, 2025. Lent is a period of prayer, fasting, and giving for Christians. Ashes represent death and repentance, reminding Christians of human mortality.

In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Hindu leaders have urged men to gather on March 1 with a sinister mission: to murder and rape Christians. Should these threats become a reality ...

A major new study by the Pew Research Center has revealed that Christianity remains the dominant faith in the United States, even as religious affiliation continues to shift. The survey of 37,000 ...

A 20-year-long decline in the number of Americans who identify as Christian may be “leveling off,” according to data released on Wednesday by Pew Research Center. Pew said its most recent ...

New Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research Center found 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christian, 29% are religiously unaffiliated, often called “nones,” and 7% identify with other religions.

With Russian forces grinding away on their eastern border, Iranian drones targeting apartment buildings and hospitals in Ukrainian cities, and North Korea sending more and more troops to fight ...

By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham covers religion from Dallas. For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the ...

Jonathan Rauch sees a “MAGA-fied” church that is not holding up its end of the bargain in defending the Constitution. Who is Jonathan Rauch, a gay Jewish atheist, to write a book about how ...

Here are some examples. Christianity Today: “Trump’s First Week Sends Shudders Through Immigrant Churches and Ministries.” This article accuses the Trump administration of plunging multiple ...

A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder and assault for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27 ...

Salman Rushdie attacker Hadi Matar faces up to 32 years in prison, along with federal terrorism-related charges, after a jury gave him a guilty verdict. Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed India-born ...

NEW YORK: An American-Lebanese man was found guilty Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author.