Much of the world today follows the Gregorian solar calendar, which has its origins in medieval Western Christianity. Conversely, the Islamic calendar or hijrī, is a lunar calendar. There are 12 ...

Nearly half of the countries in the world have an official religion, have a preferred faith or are hostile to religious institutions, Pew Research Center research finds. Islam is the most common ...

In the last decades of the twentieth century, Islam and “its compatibility with democracy” or lack thereof was relentlessly discussed in scholarly fora and the popular media. The religious resurgence ...

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means ...

Eric Yoffie is a writer and lecturer and was President of the Union for Reform Judaism from 1996 to 2012. Rabbi Yoffie's writings on American religion, interreligious dialogue and Israel and the ...

There was a time when author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali believed it all: that, according to Islam, the infidel should die, that the Quran is infallible, that those who violated sharia law — thieves, ...

STEVE KROFT: Two years ago, in the White House, in this building, you talked about al Qaeda being decimated. You talked about al Qaeda being back on its heels. Two years later, you've got al Qaeda ...

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On _____, a group of _____ heavily armed, black-clad men burst into a _____ in _____, opening fire and killing a total of _____ people. The attackers were filmed ...