Fasting is one of the oldest spiritual practices in human history. Across civilizations and religious traditions, believers have voluntarily limited food, drink, speech, comfort, or other worldly ...

Many people throughout the countries surveyed – including all major religious groups – express a general acceptance of religious diversity. For example, large majorities in each country say they would ...

Buddhists are the only group in this report whose number declined worldwide between 2010 and 2020. This was due both to religious disaffiliation among Buddhists in East Asia and to a relatively low ...