David Masci

Demographer Conrad Hackett explains how he and his team put together our major new report and why it differs from past efforts to predict religious change.

The share of the world's Christians in Europe will continue to decline while the percentage in sub-Saharan Africa will increase dramatically.

Seven-in-ten Americans rate him favorably, including two-thirds of those with no religious affiliation, a Pew Research Center poll finds.

Four-in-ten Americans said being gay or lesbian is "just the way some choose to live," while a similar share said that "people are born gay or lesbian."

We sat down with researcher Peter Henne to learn more about the complex process of measuring global religious restrictions.

Here's a rundown of the Supreme Court's busy docket, which includes cases on the ACA's contraception mandate, religion in the workplace, same-sex marriage and the death penalty.

Pew Research Center's survey in 18 Latin American countries and Puerto Rico found that many Latin Americans are leaving Catholicism and joining evangelical Protestant churches. We sat down with senior researcher Neha Sahgal to see how these conclusions were reached.

Most Americans favor allowing religious displays like nativity scenes to be placed on government property.

Tens of millions of Latin Americans have left the Roman Catholic Church in recent decades and embraced Pentecostal Christianity.

Are faith and belief in evolution necessarily at odds?