Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

Named after the sage Confucius (b. 551 B.C.E.), Confucianism is one of the most important philosophical traditions in China. Although it’s widely considered a spiritual philosophy, some scholars ...

Once the faith of millions, a small but devoted number of adherents in Asia and North America keep the flame of faith burning. Farzin Yezishne, a Zoroastrian mobed (priest), performs a blessing ...

What Jesus’ death means for how I make sense of my culture’s traditional religious practices. If you ever visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing—ancient China’s largest center for high-level ...

With the takeover of China by the communists under Mao Zedong in 1949, the country became an officially atheist state, and brutal oppression of all religion, including the Catholic Church, followed.

This Unesco world heritage site houses 252 caves and 51,000 Buddha statues, displaying a fusion of religion and politics in the Northern Wei Dynasty.