A birthday cake had lit candles around it, with each candle representing a year of the celebrant’s life. The celebrant blows ...

A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target ...

Mainline Protestantism, once a primary cultural and political pillar of American life, is in freefall. Traditional Protestant ...

Andrew Clarke, a 27-year-old Protestant from east Belfast, told CNN. Andrew Clarke studies history at Queen's University Belfast. Sarah Tilotta/CNN.

Of course, it takes time and attention, but the average modern rector in the average Protestant church in New York is no longer to be pitied in regard to money received, ...

One pays homage to the east Belfast Protestant Boys Flute Band, who march through the streets of the city every year on July 12, celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, ...

An effigy of a boat containing mannequins of migrants was set alight in the village of Moygashel on Thursday, in an incident ...

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The reason to tell this history now is to complicate the idea of Christian nationalism that’s currently gripping sectors of the right. A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute and ...