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The top religion news stories of 2025

(RNS) — Last year’s most read, most shared and most likely, in the eyes of RNS’ editors, to shape the year ahead.
In a year marked by political violence and collective unease, writers on religion and spirituality offered reflections on ...
Americans have become more and more detached from religious affiliations over the past decade, the fastest religious shift in modern history, polls show.
Most people acquire whatever religious beliefs they possess as part of their youthful indoctrination, (i.e. by growing up in a particular religious context). This becomes more complicated when a child ...
The faith-based networks, which developed organizing infrastructure and relationships during the Floyd era, are joined by ...
A new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population shows Muslims make up the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated. Though it ...
Opinion Columnist. This essay is adapted from the forthcoming book “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.” My parents ate health food in my youth, in the days before Whole Foods was everywhere, ...
FIRST ON FOX: Federal agencies are now required to protect religious expression in the workplace, according to a new government-wide memo obtained by Fox News Digital on Monday—marking one of the most ...
Despite their surface similarities, David and The Testament Of Ann Lee present opposite views of religious belief.
Pierce Brosnan leans on his Catholic faith during difficult times, including the deaths of his first wife and his daughter.