Italian scholar Massimo Introvigne did not plan on becoming a leading authority on religious freedom — his academic specialty is the sociology of new religious movements. But the precarious status of ...

This article originally was published on the International Business Times. Nearly 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2016, equivalent to one every six minutes, according to a new study ...

*This column was originally written as a letter to the editor of the Italian daily "Il Foglio." It is translated and reprinted here with permission.To the director:The reactions to the interview with ...

Iraqi Christians attend a Sunday service at St. Joseph Chaldean Church, July 24, 2011, in Baghdad, Iraq. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Nearly 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2016, ...

One of Italy’s best known sociologists of religion says more than half the country’s pastors report an increase in attendance at Mass and the sacrament of reconciliation that they attribute to a ...

CHRISTIANS are the most persecuted religious group in the world with more than 90,000 killed in 2016 because of their faith, a leading religious study group director has claimed. Speaking on Vatican ...

Disease outbreak has had a ‘dramatic’ effect, according to Italian Catholic sociologist Massimo Introvigne. A worker produces protective face masks at a factory in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong ...

Italian Catholic churches have the Pope to thank for a rise in attendance, according to a study published Monday that calls his influence the “Francis effect.” Researcher Massimo Introvigne, head of ...

A delegation of human rights experts from Europe and the US met with Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (游錫?) yesterday, before visiting the office of the Taipei Times. The delegation is led by Italian ...

Perhaps the most remarkable defense of Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church vis-à-vis the sexual abuse crisis to appear in recent weeks ironically never mentions the current pope, and it comes not ...

15:01, Mon, Oct 31, 2016 Updated: 19:14, Mon, Oct 31, 2016 Academics say the number is expected to continue to rise as migrants from Africa and the Middle East continue to arrive. Sociologist Massimo ...