RELIGION

As the Feast of the Assumption approaches, French officials warned church leaders and churchgoers alike to be vigilant.

A study showed that physical, mental and social health were better among those who held religious or spiritual beliefs.

Of the nearly 8 million people living in Israel in 2013, 320,000 were Christians.

Retired Col. Sambo Dasuki said the previous administration recaptured land from militants and stopped their leader from disrupting elections.

The Nigerian army cleared the bombs planted along a road in Borno state which led out from the northeastern town of Gwoza, Boko Haram's former headquarters.

Chinese officials say the East Turkestan Islamic Movement recruits Uighurs from Xinjiang, and trains them with extremists in Syria and Iraq.

A new analysis found that New York, Boston and Miami are currently the three most Jewish cities per capita in the country.

"Certain regimes" left the nation's army underfunded and underequipped to take on the insurgent group, says Alex Badeh, who was sacked last month.

Cameroon and Nigeria soothed tensions this week and vowed to improve military cooperation on Boko Haram, but the two countries failed to provide specifics.

A Florida gun-shop owner's religion-based discriminatory policy violates federal law, a Muslim-American group argues.

Nigeria's Maj. Gen. Iliya Abbah was chosen to lead the 8,700-strong Multinational Joint Task Force to fight militants.

Cameroonian President Paul Biya saw the Nigerian leader's failure to visit sooner as a snub.

The Chinese Communist Party has been recently cracking down on religious cults.

The satanic statue was unveiled on Saturday in a location that was kept secret from attendees until the last minute.

China's Communist Party, obsessed with social stability, brooks no challenge to its rule. It has cracked down on cults, which have multiplied in recent years. Demonstrations have been put down with force and some sect leaders executed.

The Talmud lists five tragedies inflicted on the Jewish people on the 9th of Av.

"Fear is being disguised as respect," Rushdie says.

The shootings in Chattanooga by a young Muslim man have sparked a debate within the American Muslim community.

The French satirical magazine’s editor says he won't be drawing any more cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Every day appears to bring with it another terrorist attack, but exactly who are the militant groups behind them?

Chadian authorities instituted a ban on the head-to-toe Islamic veil last month following a series of suicide bombings.