Uno studio del Metropolita Gennadios Arcivescovo Ortodosso d’Italia e Malta. [Da www.ortodossia.it] GRECI ORTODOSSI IN ITALIA MERIDIONALE

Confraternite, misticismo, santi e mausolei. Una guida per capire la corrente più spirituale dell’Islam. [Da http://www.oasiscenter.eu del 01/06/2017] SUFI

Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other extremist groups that commit acts of violence in the name of Islam, have brought Muslims and the Islamic faith to the forefront of the political debate in many countries. [Da www.pewresearch.org] MUSLIMS … Continua a leggere Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world »

Una ricerca del Pew Research Center. The former Yugoslavia spent much of the 1990s in turmoil, with a series of wars taking place amid the country’s breakup into its present-day states – each of which has a distinct ethnic and religious makeup. [Da www.pewresearch.org] YUGOSLAVIA

“Maronites, Copts, Melkites, Chaldeans … It is not easy to navigate among the various Christian communities in the Middle East, and explanations about their origins and differences are often unclear and confusing. This overview tries to instill some order”. [Da www.oasiscenter.eu] MIDDLE EAST

“Roughly a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in many places where communist regimes once repressed religious worship and promoted atheism, according to a major new Pew Research Center survey of 18 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.” [Da www.pewresearch.org del 10/05/2017] 9 KEY

“Roughly a quarter of a century after the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, a major new Pew Research Center survey finds that religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in many of the Central and Eastern European countries where communist regimes once repressed religious worship and promoted atheism.” [Da www.pewforum.org del 10/05/2017] … Continua a leggere Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe »

If demography is destiny, then Christianity’s future lies in Africa. By 2060, a plurality of Christians – more than four-in-ten – will call sub-Saharan Africa home, up from 26% in 2015, according to a new analysis of demographic data by Pew Research Center. [Da www.pewresearch.org] AFRICA

Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035; people with no religion face a birth dearth. [Da http://www.pewforum.org del 05/04/2017] RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE