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IARJ@work: IARJ co-founder part of Pulitzer-winning investigative team
Peggy Fletcher Stack, religion writer for The Salt Lake Tribune and a founding member of the International Association of Religion Journalists, was part of the…
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Global Plus: Sharia
For hundreds of millions of Muslims, Sharia is a way or a path to divine understanding that enables human beings to reach their full potential. So why does so much public conversation about “sharia” or “sharia…
IARJ @WORK: Ohio University journalism students welcome IARJ expertise
IARJ's members are active in journalism training. In the latest IARJ @ Work, co-managing director Elisa Di Benedetto describes her participation in the training program…
IARJ @ Work: Bhavya Srivastava at KAICIID Forum in Vienna
This series of occasional news items, IARJ @ Work, highlights the many ways our members are active around the world. In this item, India's Bhavya Srivastava describes his…
Global Plus: The nonreligious in the world today
Who are the nonreligious? Depending on how they are counted, the nonreligious today may be considered the world’s third largest ‘religion,’ trailing only Christianity and Islam. They…
Global Plus: Religion and Death
Across the world, billions of worshippers this weekend will be going to mosques, temples, churches and other places of worship hearing messages declaring that the choices they make in this life can affect…
Global Plus: Research shows the power of humility
In a series of scientific advances, researchers are developing a body of evidence challenging old stereotypes of humility as the province of weak-willed, stoop-shouldered individuals of low…
GlobalPlus: Religion and science
We live in an age when a presumed irrevocable gulf between science and religion is perpetuated in the public sphere. But new evidence is emerging that reveals a far more complex picture of the relationship…
GlobalPlus: The Pope Francis effect
As he marks his third anniversary on the job, Pope Francis is providing encouragement, renewed optimism and a new energy to many of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. It is an appeal that extends beyond…
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Yamuna festival is more than environmental challenge
Indian journalist Bhavya Srivastava reports on the vast interfaith festival in March 2016 in India, called World Cultural Festival hosted by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.