ESJ Humanities www.eujournal.org 1 The Impact of Religious Beliefs and Practices on Coping with Health Challenges Posed by Covid-19 Penelope Anastasiadou Special Laboratory & Teaching Staff. Department of Oral Medicine / Pathology, Dental School. Theologian Ph.D., Sociology Student Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Christos Tsironis Assoc. Professor, Department of Ethics and Sociology Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Stavros Cheristanidis MSc (Env.Sc) MSc (QA/QC). Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics. Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Dimitrios Andreadis DDS, PhD, Assc. Professor, Department of Oral Medicine / Pathology Dental School Aristotle, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Athanasios Poulopoulos DDS, PhD, Professor, Department of Oral Medicine / Pathology Dental School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Doi:10.19044/esj.2023.v19n11p1 Submitted: 24 March 2023 Accepted: 13 April 2023 Published: 30 April 2023 Copyright 2023 Author(s) Under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 OPEN ACCESS Cite As: Anastasiadou P., Tsironis C., Cheristanidis S., Andreadis D. & Poulopoulos A. (2023). The Impact of Religious Beliefs and Practices on Coping with Health Challenges Posed by Covid- 19. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 19 (11), 1. https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2023.v19n11p1 Abstract In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the aim of the present study was to investigate to what extent the undergraduate students of the Department of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, felt the need to come closer to their own religiosity, spirituality, or faith. Materials and methods: Empirical research was conducted by means of an anonymous questionnaire, comprising demographics and items focusing on religiosity, spirituality, and faith. The survey results were processed using “MICROSOFT EXCEL IBM SPSS