To some extent, the plot sounds a bit like “The Year of Living Dangerously”, which stars youngsters Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver. That centers around journalists caught up in a revolution in Indonesia.
However, the “religion” in that movie is Communism.
However, the religion in that movie is Communism.
Nice connection! No need (IMHO) for the quotation marks around the word religion, though.