https://www.religioncompare.com/updates Corrections, source changes, updates and new pages on religioncompare.com, listed on the day they go live. en Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://www.religioncompare.com/about/how-we-source?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-10-06-process-pages Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Removed a promise to reply within 48 hours from the sourcing, editorial policy and about pages and the contact form, and noted that some older religion profile sections still cite general reference works until they are revised. https://www.religioncompare.com/compare?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-compare-radar-removed Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Removed the "Belief Comparison" radar chart from comparison pages. Its 0 to 10 scores were not taken from any source. https://www.religioncompare.com/about/how-we-source?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-process-pages Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Rewrote the sourcing and editorial policy pages to describe how the site actually works, including its use of AI drafting tools, and removed descriptions of review steps that are not in place. https://www.religioncompare.com/infographics/world-religions-by-population?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-population-pew-2025 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Replaced the population figures with Pew Research Center’s June 2025 estimates for 2010 and 2020, removed a separate folk religions figure Pew no longer reports, and added what changed and why estimates differ. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/buddhism?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-buddhism-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated the number of Buddhists from about 500 million to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate of about 324 million, and noted the decline since 2010. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/is-buddhism-religion-or-philosophy?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-buddhism-article-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated the Pew figure for Buddhists to its 2020 estimate (about 324 million) and replaced the 2012 source with the 2025 study. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/who-was-the-buddha?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-buddha-article-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated the number of Buddhists to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate and replaced the 2012 source with the 2025 study. https://www.religioncompare.com/quiz/demographics?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-demographics-quiz Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated two answers to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimates: Christians about 2.3 billion (28.8%) and Buddhists about 324 million (4.1%). https://www.religioncompare.com/religions?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-hub-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update The population figures for Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews on the religions page, the homepage and comparison charts now use Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimates, with the year shown. Comparison charts no longer show figures for traditions Pew does not count separately. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/unitarian-universalism?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-uu-shared-values Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction The profile described the Seven Principles and Six Sources as current. It now explains the six shared values centered on love that replaced them in 2024 (adopted 2,025 to 499), keeps the earlier wording for history, and cites the Unitarian Universalist Association and UU World. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/what-do-jehovahs-witnesses-believe?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-jw-figures-birthdays Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated the membership figure to the organization’s 2025 service year report (a peak of 9,205,326 publishers in 241 lands), replaced a mischaracterization of why Witnesses do not celebrate birthdays with the four reasons jw.org gives, dated the Memorial by the Bible’s lunar calendar (Nisan 14) instead of calling it the Passover date, and removed an unrelated comparison link. https://www.religioncompare.com/holidays?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-holiday-dates Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Rechecked every 2026 date against a named calendar authority and corrected 24 of the 52, including Diwali (November 8), Vesak (May 31 in Singapore and Thailand), Guru Nanak Gurpurab (November 24) and the Birth of the Báb (November 10). Each entry now links its date source and notes where churches, countries or communities keep a different date. https://www.religioncompare.com/holidays?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-holidays-2027 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Added 2027 dates for every holiday, three new entries for both years (Orthodox Christmas, Orthodox Easter and the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh), a section on why dates move each year, and calendar feeds you can subscribe to in Google, Apple or Outlook. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/do-jehovahs-witnesses-celebrate-holidays?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-jw-holidays-article Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT New page New article: what Jehovah’s Witnesses do and do not celebrate, the reasons jw.org gives in its own words, the yearly Memorial, and school and workplace situations. https://www.religioncompare.com/quiz/what-religion-am-i?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-quiz-scoring Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Results used to show the top match at 100% every time. Each score is now shown against the most points that tradition could receive, with the answers that counted most. Twenty-two answer weights were adjusted to match the religion profiles. All 10 traditions are now listed with their scores (the list used to stop at 8), and Secular Humanism results now link to its profile. https://www.religioncompare.com/compare?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-compare-tool Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Comparisons can now be edited in place (swap, add or remove a tradition), focused on one topic, printed, and reopened from a list of recent comparisons. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/jehovahs-witnesses?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-jw-profile-figures Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated membership figures to the organization’s 2025 service year report: a peak of 9,205,326 publishers and 20,635,015 people at the Memorial. The religions page now shows about 9.2 million, with the report as its source. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/buddhism?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-buddhism-source Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change The 2020 population figure now cites Pew Research Center’s chapter on Buddhist population change directly. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/how-christianity-spread?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-christianity-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Replaced “roughly 2.4 billion followers, approximately 31 percent of the global population” with Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate of about 2.3 billion Christians, roughly 29 percent of the world’s population, and cited the 2025 study. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/how-islam-began?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-islam-began-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated “1.9 billion” Muslims to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate of about 2 billion, with the 2025 study as the source. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/difference-sunni-shia?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-sunni-shia-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated “1.9 billion” Muslims to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate of about 2 billion, with the 2025 study as the source. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/why-muslims-fast-ramadan?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-ramadan-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated “1.9 billion” Muslims to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate of about 2 billion, with the 2025 study as the source. https://www.religioncompare.com/quiz/knowledge?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-knowledge-quiz-uu Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change The Unitarian Universalism question now cites the Unitarian Universalist Association’s statement of shared values, which replaced the Principles and Sources in 2024. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/dietary-laws-world-religions?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-dietary-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated “1.9 billion” Muslims to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate of about 2 billion, with the 2025 study as the source. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/christianity?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-christianity-share Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Replaced “roughly 31%” with Pew Research Center’s 2020 figures: about 2.3 billion Christians, 28.8% of the world’s population, citing the 2025 study. https://www.religioncompare.com/quiz/demographics?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-demographics-quiz-jw Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction The Jehovah’s Witnesses question now gives the 2025 service year peak of about 9.2 million publishers, citing the organization’s report, instead of 8.7 million. https://www.religioncompare.com/sacred-items?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-sacred-items-uu Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update The Unitarian Universalist poster entry now mentions the shared values that replaced the principles in 2024. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/buddhism?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-buddhism-countries Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction The country figures added up to more than the world total. They now follow Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimates: Thailand has the most Buddhists, about 68 million. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/secular-humanism?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-unaffiliated-population Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Updated the religiously unaffiliated from about 1.2 billion to Pew Research Center’s 2020 estimate of about 1.9 billion, 24.2% of the world’s population, here and on the religions page. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions/jehovahs-witnesses?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-30-jw-countries Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change Country figures now come from the organization’s 2025 Country and Territory Reports, with the report cited. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/what-is-kosher-jewish-dietary-laws?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-kosher-agriprocessors Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Corrected the account of the Conservative movement’s kosher ethics standard (Magen Tzedek) after the Agriprocessors case, to match the dates reported by The Forward (2013), and replaced the citation. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/hindu-funeral-rites?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-hindu-funeral-samadhi Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Removed a sentence naming specific samadhi burials that the cited study does not support, and replaced two citations with sources that exist: Knipe on Hindu ancestor rites and McLaughlin (2021) on samadhi burial. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/what-is-sharia-law?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-sharia-maqasid Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change Replaced a citation to an encyclopedia entry that does not exist with Duderija (ed.), Maqasid al-Shari’a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought (Palgrave, 2014). https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/meditation-across-religions?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-meditation-lectio Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change Replaced a citation on lectio divina to an encyclopedia entry that does not exist with Pope Benedict XVI, Verbum Domini (2010). https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/how-islam-began?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-islam-began-sources Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change Linked the Britannica entries on the Constitution of Medina and on pre-Islamic Arabian religion, and corrected the label of the second. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/sikh-beliefs-equality?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-sikh-khalsa-aid Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change Linked the Khalsa Aid pages that the article cites. https://www.religioncompare.com/articles/great-schism-catholic-orthodox?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-great-schism-symphonia Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Source change Linked the Britannica entry on symphonia that the article cites. https://www.religioncompare.com/updates?from=rss#2026-09-26-bylines https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-bylines Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Articles are now credited to the ReligionCompare Editorial Team. The earlier individual bylines did not name real people and were removed, and an About page was added. https://www.religioncompare.com/updates?from=rss#2026-09-26-affiliate-disclosure https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-affiliate-disclosure Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Every Amazon link is now marked as a paid link, and every page with Amazon links states that the site earns from qualifying purchases. https://www.religioncompare.com/religions?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-merged-guides Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Merged the 24 beginner guides and 24 reading lists into the religion profiles, where the same material already lived. The old addresses now redirect to the profiles. https://www.religioncompare.com/glossary?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-glossary-rewrite Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Removed repeated template paragraphs from the glossary, FAQ, visitor guide and sacred text pages. Each page now keeps only the text written for it. https://www.religioncompare.com/infographics?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-infographic-tables Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Every infographic now also shows its figures as a readable table with its source. https://www.religioncompare.com/trending?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-trending-reframe Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Correction Renamed the page Religion in Public Life and removed dates on its items that were not taken from any source. https://www.religioncompare.com/educator-resources?from=rss https://www.religioncompare.com/updates#2026-09-26-educator-resources Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Update Merged the 10 separate educator resource pages into one page with a section for each. The old addresses now lead to their sections.