Upon hearing the news of Pope Benedict XVI’s death on Saturday morning, I immediately thought of a long road trip I took with my wife 10 years ago, from Alaska to Texas, and a lonely stretch of highway in central Wyoming where, trapped in a car with nothing else to do, I listened to hours and hours of interviews conducted in the ’90s with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man destined to become Pope Benedict XVI.
Over a thousand faith leaders in the United States sign a petition urging a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine and calling on the government to take a leadership role in ending the war.
The percentage of Christians in the United States is projected to decrease to between 35% and 54% by 2070, while the percentage of religiously unaffiliated individuals is expected to increase to between 34% and 52%, according to the Pew Research Center's hypothetical scenarios about the future of religion in the country.
Indonesia's Parliament on Tuesday voted to revise the country's penal code to criminalize all sex outside of marriage and to prohibit insulting the president, vice president and state institutions or ideology.
The discovery of an ancient Christian monastery on an island in the United Arab Emirates purportedly might shine a light on the faith's early history before the rise of Islam in the region.
An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, officials announced Thursday.
