Satellite television has been a key tool for evangelical churches to reach Christians and potential converts in Iran.
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To be Indigenous in Canada has often meant living under continuous observation.
Many Americans only know the history of anger and tension with Iran. But an archaeologist who has spent 45 years focusing on Iran says it is worth recalling the time when the countries were friends.
Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was early citizen science.
Consigned to jobs in sanitation and other hazardous fields, Christians, the largest religious minority group in Pakistan, face a difficult time in the country.
Today’s short-term missionaries continue a long legacy, but in a very different way.
Missionaries and African translators working on local versions of the Bible divided South Africa’s ethnic groups by language.
Singing at the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral and at King Charles III’s coronation tells a story of global histories coming full circle.
Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
White saviourism is simultaneously a state of mind and a concrete unequal power structure between the Global North and the Global South.
Millions of enslaved Africans were forcefully converted to the Christian faith. The Black church came about when African Americans began to establish their own congregations.
Pope Francis’ visit concerns all Canadians. It’s about our relationship to history and the construction of a state that marginalized Indigenous people and tried to assimilate them.
Magema Fuze’s book was a radical act of publishing. It contained histories of chiefdoms and kingdoms - from the Zulu to the Ngcobo.
The Irish government recently declared a national holiday for St. Brigid. A medieval historian explains her fascinating life and history.
I thought I had uncovered a feminist heroine, but for all her intrepid and gutsy behaviour, Lock held intensely socially conservative views in line with her religious conviction.
As missionaries expanded into Africa, they held a special grudge against polygamy. Here’s how that affected education.
The SBC is meeting amid divisions, controversy and dwindling numbers. But in pushing rhetoric over its theological mission, the denomination is tapping into a history of white supremacy.
Over the past 15 years there’s been a revival of young people - mostly Christians - participating in traditional masquerades, despite these being branded as pagan.
African evangelism is born from – and often funded by – American evangelism, and with it comes a damaging cocktail of rightwing ideologies, especially during the Donald Trump years.
The 2020 census will now count some groups differently than it has in the past. That could make a difference in the final count – affecting which states receive funding and congressional seats.
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