The longer-term trend shows an even steeper drop—between 2007 and 2023-24, the share of adults in the Midwest who said they belonged to a religion declined from 83 percent to 69 percent, according to ...

People who live in the American South continue to be more religious, on average, than residents of the Midwest, Northeast and West.

Americans in the South remain more religious than people in other regions, but religious affiliation and practices have ...

Americans are more likely to say they are spiritual than to say they are religious. Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they are either very spiritual or somewhat spiritual, while 58% say they are ...

Controversies regarding religion in the classroom in the United States are as old as the public school system itself. Most recently, a Louisiana law mandates that posters of the Ten Commandments be ...

The proportion of non-religious people in America is growing in every U.S. state except South Dakota, new research suggests. Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing the ...

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

Is it any wonder the country is revisiting faith? Credit...Iris Legendre Supported by By Lauren Jackson On Sundays, I used to stand in front of my Mormon congregation and declare that it all was true.

Religion seems to be a complicated and many-sided issue. On one hand, religion reportedly motivates charity, compassion, ethics, goodwill, kindness, morality, righteousness, selflessness, unity, etc.

A Supreme Court reporter and an education reporter explain faith’s new role in schools. By The Morning Team By Adam Liptak I cover the Supreme Court. In just the last month, the Supreme Court has ...

Under the U.S. Constitution, public schools cannot promote or advance any particular religion, and they must respect the individual religious beliefs of students and staff. What that looks like in ...

This is the lived reality of millions of people in highly controlling religions, cults, and coercive situations worldwide. Individuals in such situations are physically free to leave and yet feel ...