New demographic data highlights just how concentrated religious identity is in some parts of the world. According to figures compiled by World Population Review and the Pew Research Centre, a small ...

Football, at its best, is a civil religion: it compresses a nation into ninety minutes, turns gestures into symbols, and makes the crowd believe that fate has a scoreboard. At its worst, it invites a ...

As the world prepares to commemorate the Feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita on February 7, an extraordinary movement against ...

The Tijaniyya Sufi Order has stepped into recent tensions between Morocco and Senegal following the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final, urging calm and warning against allowing sporting rivalries to ...

Until recently, Mauritania was a major fishmeal producer, home to the world’s second-highest number of processing plants, with the boom driven largely by lax regulations and the rapid issuance of ...

Mauritania’s energy landscape stands on the brink of transformation as negotiations intensify around Africa’s most ambitious green hydrogen initiative. The West African nation is racing against time ...

Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution prohibits the establishment of an official state religion. By Ashley Ahn The Trump ...

Crackdown by Mauritania police follows EU pact to curb migration Human rights groups report deportations without due process EU provides Mauritania €210 million for ...

MBERA, Mauritania (AP) — The men move in rhythm, swaying in line and beating the ground with spindly tree branches as the sun sets over the barren and hostile Mauritanian desert. The crack of the wood ...

TGS has launched a large-scale multi-client 3D seismic project designed to support exploration across offshore Mauritania and the broader West African Atlantic margin. Mauritania currently has no ...

After decades of steady decline, new research indicates that the number of Americans identifying as religious may have stabilized, signaling a possible plateau in the nation’s ongoing religious ...