Aleksandra Sandstrom

We looked at nine major religious organizations in the U.S. that both ordain women and allow them to hold top leadership slots.

Religious institutions are starting to formally address the participation of transgender people in their congregations, much as they have with the issue of accepting homosexuals.

Some of the largest Christian denominations in the U.S. have relatively low levels of involvement among their members.

Of the 4,705 reported fire incidents at houses of worship between 1996 and 2015, 2,378, or 51%, have been ruled intentional.

The regulation of abortion may vary widely from country to country, but nearly all nations – 96% – allow women to terminate their pregnancies in order to save their lives.

Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on an enormous scale Sunday, with 2 million people expected to gather on a mile-long parkway in downtown Philadelphia. We gathered key facts about Communion and U.S. Catholics for the occasion.

More than half of America's busiest airports have dedicated chapels, and many of these facilities offer a variety of worship services for different faith traditions.

More House Republicans in the new, 114th Congress identify as Catholic than in any other recent Congress, and they now outnumber Catholic Democrats in the House.