August 22 is the International Day commemorating the victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief. More than 4000 Christians were killed in 2018 because of their faith.

A report of the ‘Observatory of Laicité’ says the right to express one’s beliefs in public is protected by “internal and international laws”. Evangelicals are the faith group with the highest percentage of practicing believers.

According to a Pew Research survey, “52 countries impose high levels of restrictions on religion, up from 40 in 2007”. Social hostilities have grown even more.

Only 2 in 10 Spaniards are practicing Catholics, according to official statistics. Half of young people identify as either Atheists, Agnostics or indifferent.

Several universities has launched the study ‘Understanding Unbelief’.“Atheists and agnostics endorse the realities of objective moral values at similar rates to the general populations”.

The impact of demographic change on religious populations and how this could relate to the future of secularisation in Europe.

The resolution, approved by consensus, hopes to “help combat hate crimes and acts of violence related to religion or belief, and further strengthen inter-religious dialogue”.

For Taylor, the loss of transcendence in a secular age is disastrous for human beings.

The Southern European country has transitioned from national Catholicism to secularism in only 25 years.

Jesus in an age of secularism, relativism, and tolerance.

Have you stopped to think that maybe you are searching in the wrong direction, even if you are following a religion?

The Brazilian physicist defends “a complementary approach to knowledge, especially on questions where science cannot provide a final answer”.

Christianity is the third religion in number of population of Taiwan, “but socially many families are still hostile to Christianity”, says an evangelical pastor in the island.

The government of Emmanuel Macron is working on a modification of the religion law of 1905.

The President of the Spanish region of Murcia opened Idea2019, the General Assembly of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance. “If there were many evangelicals, this region would be better”.

Efraim Tendero represented evangelical Christians at the Global Conference on Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi.

A YouGov survey shows that “substantial portions of Western respondents” believe Islam is incompatible with society.

For a long time, the main thrust of politics with respect to religion was separation of Church and state. In our secularised multi-religious society, the question is: how can churches contribute to the common good in society?

Evangelical leaders back a movement to defend the right and responsibility of parents to educate their children in values. It will confront the “tyranny of gender ideology”.

Atheists hope non-belief will be included in the curriculum.

Professor Richard Weikart explains how Adolf Hitler was opposed to Christianity and tried to whittle away its influence.

Under the decree of autocephaly, the new church’s jurisdiction will be restricted to Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church reacts: “It is the result of political and personal ambitions”.

Most Mozambicans say they are Christian, but in rural areas, it’s not hard to find evidence of shamanism and ethnic rites.

On its last work day of 2018, the Bulgarian Parliament voted amendments in the nation’s Religious Denominations Act. A number of problematic provisions were pulled out of draft following local protests and international pressure.

“I encourage companies, businesses, to promote religious freedom and diversity at the workplace”, says the EU Special Envoy for the promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief.