Do we find similar tendencies when we turn from war and politics to war and religion? Does religion make war? In the case of the Crusades and the 16th-century wars of religion, the answer might ...

Religion has been a part of bloody conflicts that have engulfed dozens of countries in the last fifteen years. In Ireland, Cyprus, the Balkans, Rwanda, Burma, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Sudan, Israel ...

Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, "Religion, as the guardian of moral values, has always had a paradoxical relation to war. While it condemns the inhumanity of war, it also becomes an instrument ...

Modern people often regard the idea of a holy war as a contradiction. Killing thousands of people and causing wholesale destruction seems to be as far from holiness as one can get. But religion ...

marking the beginning of the series of conflicts which became known as the French Wars of Religion. In 1572, in an effort to bring reconciliation, Catherine arranged the marriage of her daughter ...

Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International Christian Concern's (ICC) Global Religious Persecution Index. The regime's ...

religious combat unit. “I always had a dream to enlist in a combat role, but I never thought it would actually happen,” said Shira Winter, one of the new recruits. “Then the war came ...

MINSK, April 4. /TASS/. The situation in Ukraine has acquired features of a religious war, where the West and Kiev has no red lines, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey ...