(The Conversation) — Forum 18, a site based in Norway, is one of the few media outlets specializing in coverage of religious freedom. (The Conversation) — Freedom of worship is tenuous around the ...

The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing ...

The United Nation's latest global population projection predicts there will be 8 billion people on the planet by November this year, and 8.5 billion by 2050. Unfortunately, Central and Southern Asia ...

Many people believe that the Philippines is the most Catholic country of Asia. But this has not been the case since the 1990s; Timor-Leste now has a higher percentage of Catholics. How do we explain ...

As the clouds broke over the countryside around Williamstown, Mass.. five Williams College students out for a walk scurried for the shelter of a haystack. There, while the rain droned on, they ...

Two experts on Catholicism and religion in Asia and Latin America discuss the challenges Pope Benedict XVI faces within the American Catholic Church and in the developing world. Now some perspective ...

An important distinguishing and defining factor of India is its plurality, and an important unifying theme is its diversity. In this statement lies a self-evident truth about India; everything in ...

(The Conversation) — Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, ...