Why is the world’s largest church building in Yamoussoukro?
Notes from the Global Church
Philip Jenkins charts developments in the Two-Thirds World
Image: Accra, Ghana. Some rights reserved by Jonatan Freund.
What’s replacing it?
In 1896, a Christian army from Ethiopia defeated the Italians.
A growing number of Malayalam-language films feature Christian characters or themes.
Faith shaped by migration, diaspora, and slavery
The Pentecostals of the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus have a mighty vision.
Something as big as a plague always remakes the religious landscape.
The media portrays him as a progressive. It’s not that simple.
A nation’s rapid population growth and its complex religious impacts
But for how long?
Nicaragua’s liberator has become its dictator.
The cult of Tsar Nicholas II and the resurrection of Russian Orthodox nationalism
At a time of rapid secularization, filmmakers seem intrigued—if sometimes also repelled—by religion.
Buddhism offers a clear answer. With Christianity, it’s more complex.
The island is a microcosm of the world’s religions—and of their wars.
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