with contributions from Gloria Galloway, David Yount, Matt Hannon
THE NUMBER OF CHAPLAINS
within the Canadian military has increased faster than the recruitment within the forces themselves, as the service attempts to address increasing stress faced by its soldiers, sailors, and airmen.
A POLL OF 28,000 PEOPLE Carried out for the BBC World Service found that a majority of surveyants from around the globe believe the main causes of problems between the West and Islam are not based on religious but political and economic factors.
SOME 140 YEARS AGO,
a Methodist missionary with a flowing beard stepped aboard a sampan in coastal China and held on firmly as boatmen steered up the Min River, poling and rowing past rapids that almost splintered the vessel.
with contributions from Richard N. Ostling, Steve Bray, Christie Storm
PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT of key religious developments is the ongoing, inexorable shift of Christianity's population and dynamism away from the West and toward a markedly different style in developing nations of the "Global South.
with contributions from David Dorsey, James Buescher
ABOUT ONE-THIRD
of [National Football League] players openly celebrate their Christian faith, according to The Christian Science Monitor, but they encounter just one problem.
