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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Want to Cultivate a Liberal European Islam? Look to Bosnia.
Throughout the 20th century, Bosnian Muslim thinkers offered creative theological interpretations that squared with European life.
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David Gray / Reuters China Reneges on Its Deals. The Vatican Is Learning That the Hard Way.
The disappearance of a bishop is an object lesson in interacting with Beijing.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters China’s Mass Detention of Muslims Is a Test for Trump
The Trump administration has been slamming Beijing for its Uighur internment camps. But some worry that criticism will go quiet after the G20.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Trump's Evangelical Advisers Hear from the Saudi Crown Prince on Khashoggi
“I may have caused some of our people to love our kingdom too much.”
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Mario Tama / Getty The Witches of Baltimore
Young black women are leaving Christianity and embracing African witchcraft in digital covens.
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Darrian Traynor / Getty A Theological Murder Mystery Is Rattling Christians in Egypt
What motivated the killing of a bishop inside his own monastery?
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters How a Comedian Pushed Ireland Into a Referendum on Blasphemy
Stephen Fry called God “stupid” in an interview three years ago. Now voters are headed to the polls.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters A Dead Sea Scrolls Forgery Casts Doubt on the Museum of the Bible
Controversy over the dubious sourcing of artifacts has dogged the museum since its inception. Why hasn’t it learned its lesson?
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Francis Is Still Equivocating on the Sex-Abuse Crisis
He stands by those to whom he’s loyal but, when faced with new evidence, is also willing to change his mind.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters The Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal Takes Down a Cardinal
The pope has accepted the resignation of the leader of the Archdiocese of Washington. What happens next?
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Boris Pelcer What Óscar Romero’s Canonization Says About Pope Francis
Reassessing the Catholic Church’s dubious history in Latin America
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Sputnik Photo Agency / Reuters Ukraine’s Spiritual Split From Russia Could Trigger a Global Schism
For Moscow, the crisis is geopolitical as well as religious.
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Rami Niemi How Much Would You Pay for a Prayer?
In India, thousands are embracing apps that allow them to pay for a ritual to be performed on their behalf.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters Why a Small Jewish Group Is Supporting a German Party With Anti-Semitic Ties
The formation of “Jews in the AfD” is baffling to many, but it’s also part of a larger pattern across Europe.
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Azad Lashkari / Reuters Trump’s Refugee Policy Also Hurts the Most Vulnerable Christians
The U.S. has admitted only 70 of them from the Middle East, the region where they are most at risk.
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Susana Vera / Reuters / Katie Martin / ... Should the Catholic Church Pay Reparations to Sex-Abuse Victims?
The Church is offering to pay people who can credibly say they were abused as children, but who can no longer file a lawsuit because the statute of limitations has passed.
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Shawn Zhang / Google Earth Internet Sleuths Are Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps for Muslims
The country is using high-tech methods of repression, but even the simplest tech may be enough to expose them.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters The Sex-Abuse Scandal Is Growing Faster Than the Church Can Contain It
The Catholic world is struggling to absorb a week of new revelations and resignations.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty China's Jaw-Dropping Family Separation Policy
Children and parents are being ripped apart on a massive scale. It may rob an entire generation of their Muslim identities.
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters The Power Play Driving the Latest Vatican Crisis
An explosive letter calling on the pope to resign may say more about its author than anything else.
