RELIGION

The justice minister wants to ensure all residents follow laws against polygamy and underage marriages.

The Tibetan spiritual leader is currently in the U.S. for a series of lectures and public talks, while the new Taiwan president is scheduled for stopover during her impending trip to Panama.

The police said it had detained over 5,000 people in a countrywide security operation to combat increasing attacks on religious minorities and secular activists.

Although the motive for the killing was unknown, it bore resemblance to recent attacks on Hindus and other religious minorities in the Muslim-dominant country.

Mahmuda Aktar, 33, was killed in what police suspected was the latest in a series of attacks by Islamists in the majority-Muslim nation.

Over 1.6 billion Muslims around the globe will celebrate Ramadan.

Dozens of Muslims were killed in religious clashes in the western state of Gujarat at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was its chief minister.

The carcasses were found when wildlife authorities were removing live tigers from the premises of the Buddhist temple amid reports of wildlife trafficking.

Relations plummeted after Riyadh broke diplomatic ties when its Tehran embassy was stormed in January over the Saudi execution of a Shiite cleric.

The Saudi embassy in Ankara denied Monday that its authorities were preventing Iranian nationals from taking part in the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

The third largest church in the U.S. is growing overseas, especially in Africa and Asia, where more conservative views on sexuality predominate.

Faith leaders will speak at the three-hour event in Washington, and other Americans will take part in prayer events around the country on Thursday.

In comments likely to alarm religious believers, Zhu Weiqun, a senior advisor on religion, said “Marxist atheism” was China’s guiding ideology and should be widely promoted.

For Syrian refugees, Brazil offers a safe and legal haven, but the troubled economy has many questioning their long-term future in Latin America.

Beltane is a pagan spring festival that marks the end of winter and the fertility of the coming summer.

A recent Pew poll appeared to show vastly differing views toward the role of the Quran in making law.

“We all have the same God; the main thing is for this to proceed in harmony,­” a Jewish leader in Marseille said recently.

The religion, which has 8.2 million members but spent $236 million last year supporting its missionaries, may benefit from his estate.

The pattern of the attack is similar to recent killings of secular activists and atheist bloggers by Islamic militants in the Muslim-majority country.

Lutz Bachmann, who has been accused of inciting racial hatred through his comments on Facebook in 2014, appeared in court Tuesday.

However, more than half of the Muslims polled in a survey don't agree with the broader population's approval of homosexuality as legal.