From the abolition of slavery to civil rights, religion has driven America's great moral advances. As the nation celebrates 250 years, what happens if its influence fades?

Adherence to organized religion is falling in the United States, but defenders of the religious right are ascendant in positions of power in the Trump administration.

When the Center for American Progress held an event last month to highlight the release of its report on religious liberty in ...

Nnachi Azuewah didn't intend to stay in the United States. A brother-in-law to the first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nnachi always planned to finish college and return to his hometown.

President Donald Trump said at a June faith conference that “religion is back in our country, bigger and stronger than it has ...

The number of American adults who identify with Christianity, with another religion, or with no religion have all remained steady, a new Pew Research Center report finds. Surveys conducted since 2020 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. There has been a recent, but sharp, uptick in the proportion of U.S.

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I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

Ask someone in Jackson, Mississippi what they did last Sunday and there’s a reasonable chance they were at church. Ask the same question in Burlington, Vermont and the answer looks very different.