ISTANBUL, Turkey -- "I believe in God, but I don't believe in religion," said a young Turkish soldier at the gate of a military museum here. "I don't want to pray five times a day." Those who do, he ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - You would never know it from the newspaper headlines, but the main focus of Pope Benedict's visit to Muslim Turkey next week is to promote Roman Catholic ties not with Islam but ...

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 ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's top Muslim official said on Thursday Pope Benedict should state clearly during a planned visit to Turkey next week he believes Islam, like Christianity, to be a religion of ...