For more than 30 years, Pastor Son has served a congregation in Busan, South Korea, with quiet faithfulness. He is a husband, a father of three, and a grandfather of five. Long before he entered ...

Buddhism is the only major religion whose global population shrank between 2010 and 2020. Learn why it declined in East Asia, particularly in Japan and South Korea.

Tokyo High Court, in its March 4 ruling, upheld a decision dissolving the Unification Church of Japan and it is likely to ...

The global population of Buddhists shrank by roughly 5% between 2010 and 2020, the sole major religious group to decline.

The middle of February I received the following email from the president of the Muslim Students Association on our campus: "I am writing to request permission to post flyers on campus on behalf of our ...

How the 2026 Academy Awards was able to pit faith against religion. “Now, in 2026, Hollywood is finally developing a synthesis: Faith is bad when it is an organized (particularly Christian) religion, ...

The church, whose links to former prime minister Shinzo Abe were at the heart of his assassination, will be forced to return ‘coercive’ donations ...

When athletes stand for the anthem, they symbolically enter a contract: the anthem represents the nation and the athletes its citizens. That’s why the silence of the Iranian women’s football team was ...

John Eliot Gardiner Revives Baroque for Seoul Bach Performance Controversial Maestro Returns to South Korea After 22 Years ...

Have you watched professional baseball players interact with each other during games? Often, cultural differences are illustrated in those interactions.

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Tuesday passed a Bill to repeal 80 obsolete Acts and laws, in a move aimed at ...

Across the street from Seoul’s Jogyesa Temple, on the third floor of a small building, lies Bohwa Seonwon. It is a Weiyang Sect meditation hall, unfamiliar to many Koreans. The interior was simple: a ...