(RNS) — From Russia and Hungary to Turkey and India to the U.S. of A., actual and wannabe authoritarians make a practice of imbuing their movements with religious significance, in a way that ...

The Vatican on Wednesday expelled the founder of an influential Peruvian religious movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after the Catholic hierarchy spent more than a decade of downplaying ...

But President Donald Trump is trying to create a new religious right, one that is not just illiberal but fundamentally different and opposed to traditional religion as we’ve known it. The faith of the ...

Lance Wallnau speaking with attendees at the 2023 Pastors Summit San Diego hosted by Turning Point Faith in San Diego, California. Wallnau first proclaimed that Donald Trump was like King Cyrus of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent CNN segment about controversial pastor Doug Wilson has prompted pushback from religious scholars and advocates who ...

Pseudonyms are used in this article to protect the anonymity of the research participants. I met Sheikh Ahmed at a small mosque in central Morocco in October 2016. He told me: “We used to believe that ...