Clearly there is a key link between populism and religion. But there seems to have been relatively little academic interest in the connection.

When leaders of the country’s two largest religious groups — the Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention — hold meetings this week, the separate conferences will have a common agenda: clergy sexual abuse.

As the federal government threatens to stop funding English lessons, soccer games, and other programs deemed “not directly necessary” for migrant children in US care, Christian groups have defended the crucial role of these activities and pledged to keep them…

Aimee Maddonna, 34, a South Carolina mother of three, was turned away by a state-funded foster care agency because she is Catholic.  

The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies

In the summer of 1979, conservatives within the Southern Baptist Convention gathered in Houston for their annual meeting with the goal of seizing control of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

The 94-year-old former president returned to Maranatha Baptist Church on Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.

When the bishops gather in Baltimore June 11-14, their meeting will be anything but pro forma.

Four years ago on June 17, when Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church became national news, Jennifer Berry Hawes was one of the first reporters on the scene to cover the massacre.