There are roughly 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world, yet fully functioning democracies remain rare. That reality is difficult to ignore. But it raises ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Islam grew faster than any other major religious group globally from ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

Muslims grew faster than any other major religious group in the decade leading up to 2020, according to new Pew Research Center estimates. Muslims continued to be the second-largest religious group in ...