This Pew Research Center analysis looks at reasons why people identify as Protestant or switch into or out of Protestantism. It is part of a broader report that focuses on patterns in religious ...

LINDEN, Va. — In the waves of turbulence that rippled throughout the Catholic Church in the 1970s, the nuns of St. Dominic’s Monastery found themselves forced to leave their longtime home in Wisconsin ...

Visitors look at a panorama-painting that shows the town of Wittenberg 500 years ago in the year 1517 on May 20, 2017 in Wittenberg, Germany. Correspondent Five hundred years ago, an unknown monk ...

The Protestant Bible, of which the NIV is one version, is seven books shorter than the Bible used by Roman Catholics. But Protestants didn't just take out books; they used a different standard of what ...

Protestant Christianity throughout the world once looked automatically to Germany for the newest direction in theology. Not so any more, for “the science of things divine” is international in scope, ...

Views on Christians drinking alcohol have stayed steady among Protestant churchgoers over the past decade, according to a new study. While 41 percent of Protestant churchgoers say they consume alcohol ...

Welcome to the post-Protestant Reformation. By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist “Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith,” Dwight Eisenhower said in ...

The popular understanding of the founding of the Church of England was that lusty old King Henry VIII wanted to marry his pretty little mistress. The Pope wouldn’t grant him a divorce, so Henry sent ...

Israel is about to learn this lesson. The only question is whether it learns it the way the Baptists did — through political ...

When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens retires this summer, the court will be without a Protestant for the first time in its 220-year history, said James Oliphant in the Los Angeles Times.

Her friends were getting married. She made plans for the big day and imagined what she would wear. But her friends were Protestants, and she was Catholic. The priest said that her mortal soul would be ...