Sunday morning at 10.45 and the streets of Stornoway are deathly quiet. There isn’t a soul to be seen; you can hear the birds ...

They chanted: "Female circumcision is my religious belief, Gambia is not for sale." Last year, the cleric helped pay the fines of three women who were convicted of carrying out FGM on young girls.

The three-day capacity building training held at the GAMCOTRAP headquarters in Kanifing, attracted selected participants from ...

The Gambia, often referred to as "The Smiling Coast of Africa," is a small West African country bordered by Senegal on three sides and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It is the smallest country ...

11 advertised the perils of religious fundamentalism, because the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis undermined the West’s strongest bastion of organized Christianity and because the digital ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Somewhere in the world, a meal, ritual, or offering is being prepared in religious observance—most likely by the ...

Plenty of studies over the last two decades have found that people who have some sort of religious faith tend to have somewhat better psychological well-being than those who aren’t religious.

Eighty-one percent of Americans say the law should not allow companies or other institutions to use religious beliefs to decide whether to offer a service to some people and not others.

“We have to save religion in this country.” His vision of emboldened Christian power stands in stark contrast to the pluralist and feminist vision of Ms. Harris. She embodies the multifaith ...

How did we find these deals? We looked at every economy class flight to from Brussels to Gambia. And these fares have the biggest savings when compared to the average airfare. The cheapest flight from ...