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Christianity has experienced some of the largest losses from religious switching of any faith group around the world.

This Pew Research Center analysis looks at reasons why people identify as Protestant or switch into or out of Protestantism. It is part of a broader report that focuses on patterns in religious ...

Southern Baptist membership sank last year to its lowest level since 1973. But the nation’s largest Protestant denomination ...

LINDEN, Va. — In the waves of turbulence that rippled throughout the Catholic Church in the 1970s, the nuns of St. Dominic’s Monastery found themselves forced to leave their longtime home in Wisconsin ...

A new “ecclesiological think tank” offers a valuable but incomplete summary. What is the church? Though the question has dogged Christians since the Book of Acts, there has been something of a renewal ...

MALMO, Sweden-- Pope Francis traveled to secular Sweden on Monday to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a remarkably bold gesture given his very own Jesuit religious order was ...

Views on Christians drinking alcohol have stayed steady among Protestant churchgoers over the past decade, according to a new study. While 41 percent of Protestant churchgoers say they consume alcohol ...

Many Houstonians will celebrate this three-day Labor Day weekend by racing to Galveston beaches, hitting the malls for sales or making a fast getaway by plane. But for every stop for beer or gas, ...

Nearly all Protestant churches in Algeria have been forced to close, pushing thousands of Christians into private homes and ...