RELIGION

A Mormon Bishop and trained self-defense expert helped saved a neighbor from assault Tuesday using a samurai sword.

SANA, the state-controlled news agency, accused rebels of blowing up the mosque, but opposition activists blame the government.

Muhammad Robert Heft, a Muslim community leader, said Muslims tipped off RCMP on a potential terrorist plot to blow up a commuter train in Canada.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators his brother was the mastermind of the marathon bombing and no terrorist groups were involved.

Militants in a rebel-held area of northern Syria have kidnapped two archbishops traveling from the Turkish border back to the city of Aleppo.

One British man is claiming his fabric softener-stained T-shirt is a picture of Jesus Christ.

The hacktivist group Anonymous threatened the Westboro Baptist Church, saying that if the church tries to protest the Boston Marathon funerals, it can expect a backlash.

The Westboro Baptist Church plans on protesting at the funerals of the Boston Marathon tragedy victims.

Lafayette, La., sports anchor George Faust refers to teenage golf sensation Guan Tianlang as a "Chinaman" on-air.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) officially recognized the Somali government on Friday, ending a 22-year-long break in relations.

Guan has already gained five years on his hero Tiger Woods.

A photo of an Orthodox Jewish man who covered himself in plastic on an airplane has gone viral.

On Easter weekend, a hamster from Painswick, England, showed holiday spirit when she rose from the dead on Good Friday.

Mary Ann Rapp, a 68-year-old Catholic nun, pleaded guilty to stealing $128,000 from churches to support her gambling habit.

A fake website published a statement that cited the Texas megachurch pastor Joel Osteen as abandoning his faith in Christianity.

The infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest the late Roger Ebert's funeral today in Chicago.

Elder Eldred G. Smith, the oldest Mormon Church general authority and oldest known Utahn, has died at the age of 106.

At least five people have been killed in cities just north of Cairo during violent outbreaks between Muslims and Coptic Christians.

Matthew Warren -- the 27-year-old son of the Rev. Rick Warren, the pastor of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. -- took his own life this weekend.

The Assad regime has called on Shiites to take up arms against the Syrian rebels. In doing so, it has opened a can of snakes.

Islamist groups in Bangladesh held a mass protest Saturday in Dhaka, demanding the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law.