The list of the 20 Most Popular Religions in the World has been ranked in ascending order – from religions with lesser number of adherents to higher number of adherents.

Russell M. Nelson tops the list of oldest living religious figures, closely followed by the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, a Buddhist leader, who was born just three years after the Mormon president.

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Some of the world’s major religions still assign significance to eclipses, whether as a bad omen or a call to prayer. Here’s how eclipses — or possible references to them — have featured ...