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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.

Pro-Palestinian students chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” as the Israeli politician spoke at San Francisco State University.

A Sikh soldier is hoping the Pentagon will allow him to wear long hair and a turban while serving in the military.

Pope Francis, speaking from the window of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, called the Sunday attack in a busy park in Lahore a “vile and senseless crime.­”

The GOP candidate says he’s a Baptist, and his convictions may have helped him win Utah’s Mormon voters.

Following the attacks in Brussels, Muslims condemned the attacks, defending against a feared backlash in Europe.

Skip the crowds and still soak in the beauty of the services, which will be live-streamed here.

The holiday is celebrated by almost all Christian denominations.

Geert Wilders and other populist politicians, including Donald Trump in the U.S., have won support by calling for bans on Muslim immigration.

The security agency released a statement Thursday that said Faisal Mohammad, who stabbed four people on Nov. 4, 2015, was probably "self-radicalized."

Self-styled Islamic militants in the southern Philippines have demanded ransom for the release of a Filipino and three foreigners they captured in September 2015.

Since December attacks against the American Sikh community have increased by an estimated 300 percent.

Japan gets ready for International Women’s Day with some wishing there was more to celebrate. In spite of a push to get more women into leadership, the nation's movers and shakers are still mostly male.