Religion serves as the social bedrock of many communities around the globe, while also acting as a source of division and conflict. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Religion” feature reporting on faith, its effects on people’s lives, and the role it plays in civil society. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on religion.
The month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan began this week. In a camp of about 800, refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan celebrate with what little they have.
The town of Shadian was once marketed as the “little Mecca of the East.” But can its residents really practice their religion in peace?
A century after the 1916 Easter Rising, Ireland marks a defining moment in its history with an armed rebellion against imperial rule.
Mission trips pour into Haiti each week. An organization that has been hosting groups for a decade envisions a better model based on job creation.
Grantees Michael Edison Hayden and Sami Siva speak about India's transgender community on Interfaith Voices.
Grantee Christopher de Bellaigue speaks with WBEZ Worldview host Jerome McDonnell on deradicalization in French jails.
The security-based approach adopted by the French government to the crisis over radicalisation may be storing up trouble for the future.
France is starting a controversial program to combat Islamic radicalization in jails—where many of the country's most notorious terrorists learned extremism. Will it work?
In a country that feels increasingly ambivalent about its role as Europe's humanitarian superpower, young Muslim activists are helping to integrate new waves of immigrants into Swedish society.
As Ireland becomes more secular, the Catholic Church's word, once law, is vying for a sustainable place in the heart of the Emerald Isle.
Ireland was once called, "the most Catholic country in the world." While that might not be true anymore due to a drastic decline in Mass attendance, Irish church leaders aren't giving up.
Photographer Chiara Goia traveled with writer Nell Freudenberger to report on the Parsi community and to document the stories of this declining community.
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