Bzhania defended the controversial August 19 protocol of his meeting with Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration Dmitry Kozak, which demanded Abkhazia to fulfill its obligations to ...

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

Russian forces invaded Georgia in 2008, before formally recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. Several ...

It has been more than 30 years since fighting broke out between Georgia and Abkhazia. Some of those whom the conflict displaced found refuge in a former Georgian sanatorium: the Hotel Metalurg.

(RNS) — Here’s a switch: Young women are less likely to be religious, and young men are less likely to be politically active. (RNS) — For decades, multiple studies have shown that women are ...

Curiosity About Religion Is Viewed as Morally Virtuous, New Research Finds Sep. 21, 2023 — People from diverse religious backgrounds in the United States view curiosity about religion as morally ...

Debates about the impact of religion in the world have been going on for a long time. There is one facet of that debate, ...

Details about the Ochamchire base, located in Abkhazia and occupied by Russia and its proxy forces since the 1990s, have been scant. Much of the analysis about the port has stemmed from satellite ...

Unexpected because a gender gap in religion, where women are more likely to identify with and practice Christianity, has been a consistent feature of the American religious landscape going back ...

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Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Supported by By Ruth Graham Ruth Graham, who covers religion, reported from Waco, Texas. On a beautiful Sunday morning in early September, dozens of young men ...

America is one of the most religious countries in the West. About two-thirds of its voters identify as Christian. But - things are changing and the nation has become less devout in the last few ...