People who study the societies of the world have never found one without a religion. Individuals may not believe in God, but in the long history of humanity, people in societies have almost always ...

Christianity reached Asia early and even gained ground in China and Japan, but it never became dominant because it faced powerful rival religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and especially Islam. Unlike ...

A major new analysis by the Pew Research Center found that Buddhism was the only major world faith to record a decline ...

Top Vatican officials and Buddhist monks in Cambodia have begun another series of dialogues, seeking ways to foster Buddhist-Christian cooperation and to work for peace. The three-day colloquium, the ...

The global population of Buddhists shrank by roughly 5% between 2010 and 2020, the sole major religious group to decline.

Lack of institutional sympathy over the centuries, especially at the elite level, may explain why it entered the modern era with relatively little gas in the tank. A century ago, many reports alleged ...