RELIGION

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.

A senior military officer said the emaciated-looking detainees are now being held at Nigeria’s military headquarters in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram.

Francis said Wednesday that the Catholic Church should not accept money earned from the abuse of low-income workers.

The uptick in hate crimes targeting Muslims and Middle Easterners comes in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.

The bombs, which had been seized from militant group Boko Haram, detonated accidentally and were not planted, police said.

Among some presidential candidates, faith appears to be a fundamental element not only of their lives but also of their campaigns.

A New Hampshire state representative's Facebook comment came during a spat between the Republican candidate and the pontiff.

With its pagan and Roman roots, St. Valentine’s Day has a dark, rose-free history.

The meeting between the Roman Catholic pope and the Russian Orthodox patriarch was a historic moment in the 1,000-year-long Great Schism dividing Christianity.

The interfaith community in Riverside, California, is seeking to address continued anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic backlash.

The weight of hundreds of years of history will be felt as Pope Francis and Russia’s Orthodox Patriarch Kirill meet in Cuba amid suggestions the Kremlin may gain politically from the encounter.

Mardi Gras occurs the last day before the beginning of Lent, a period of fasting and repentance leading up to Easter.

About 2,000 people, mostly women, protested the ban in capital Sarajevo carrying banners that read “Hijab is my Daily Choice,” “Hijab is my Right” or “Hijab is my Life.”

In a vote Thursday, the multinational body unanimously labeled the terror group's targeting of Christians and Yazidis as a war crime.

The event marks a rare time when Democrats and Republicans come together to bond over their shared belief in the Christian faith.

Wednesday’s trip to the Islamic Society of Baltimore Wednesday will mark the president’s first visit to an American mosque, but he has frequently commented on Muslims in the past.

The terrorist organization has been called un-Islamic, but the charge of apostasy by John Kerry carries a death sentence in several majority-Muslim countries.

The women serve as emissary-representatives for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a worldwide Jewish community.

The event is being held to examine the rights of religious minorities in Muslim-majority communities, in theory and in practice.

Jack Letts is surprised by reports that he had joined ISIS and married an Iraqi woman. His family says he's a humanitarian aid worker, not a terrorist.