RELIGION

Determining why the nations of the world are throwing Israeli Jews under the bus is an easy call. Most of the countries with abundant oil reserves are predominantly Muslim.

The trauma of [the recent killings] is profound for our country ... a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The lottery preys on the poor, the uneducated, the desperate and the hopeless…

Nearly 80,000 people from across the United States and beyond gathered in Spanish Fork, Utah this past weekend to celebrate the Festival of Colors – a tribute to India’s Holi celebration

Dave Mustaine may be one of the greatest rockers of all-time, but during a recent interview with Canadian TV show The Hour to promote his new album 13, the 50-year-old Megadeth frontman admitted his distrust of Obama and where he was born, which would effectively make him a birther.

Federal authorities filed criminal charges Wednesday against a JetBlue Airways pilot who ranted about religion and the Sept. 11 hijackings and pounded on a locked cockpit door before passengers subdued him in a midair uproar.

Ahead of next month's French presidential election, incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy has already complained that there are too many immigrants in France.

Wednesday's successful protests in defense of Balwant Singh Rajoana evince a longstanding tension between Sikhs and other religious groups in India.

Christianity in China is booming despite the government’s rigorous attempts to control religious practice.

In what some call a win for religious freedom, Kentucky's General Assembly passed an Amish buggy bill on Tuesday that would exempt them from affixing orange safety triangles on the back of their carriages.

Pope Benedict XVI ends his three-day trip to Cuba by delivering a mass and meeting with former leader of the communist island, Fidel Castro.

A twelve-year-old Jewish boy was assaulted by youths shouting anti-Semitic slogans -- including “dirty Jew” -- in southeast Paris.

“The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection” is published by Viking on March 26. This book unlocks 2,000 years of history by giving the first comprehensive, tangible, secular cause for early Christian belief in the Resurrection, Viking editorial director Joel Rickett said in a statement on the Book Seller. “Only a brilliant art historian with an insatiably curious mind could have made this astonishing breakthrough.

Oslo courts have convicted Mullah Krekar, an Iraqi-born Islamist cleric, to five years in prison for posting online death threats against Kurdish immigrants and Norwegian officials.

Companies looking for new employees continually look to social networks like Facebook to learn more about their job candidates. But since many users have made their profiles private, some employers now require applicants to submit their login information. But is this an invasion of privacy?

Oprah Winfrey took the Next Chapter edition of her show to Fairland, Iowa on Sunday where she explored a new type of spirituality: Transcendental meditation.

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba on Monday. The three-day trip marks the second time that the head of the Catholic Church has visited the island nation since the Communist Revolution of 1959.

Pope Benedict XVI is kicking off his three-day visit to Cuba today after traveling to Mexico for three days, where he denounced the drug violence sweeping the country.

Himmler, responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people, was also a highly complex and fascinating man. He was obsessed with India and Hinduism.

Rick Santorum defeated Mitt Romney in the Lousiana presidential primary.

In a male-dominated world, it is heartening to witness women all round the globe come out of their cocoon, voice their rights and fight against all those chauvinist men who think “it’s her fault.”