RELIGION

The dates of the celebration vary from year to year because the Jewish calendar goes by lunar cycles instead of the sun.

A survey of Harvard’s incoming freshmen suggests millennials are turning away from traditional faiths in a country that has long had a Christian majority.

“As I am speaking to you, all the terrorists’ camps have completely been wiped out," Nigerian Defense spokesman Col. Rabe Abubakar said Wednesday.

"We don't recognize this caliphate," Ayman al-Zawahri said of the Islamic State group, before adding he would cooperate with them.

The term Rosh Hashana translates to "Head of the Year" and Jews acknowledge the holiday as the anniversary of the creation of the world. 

A man called on the Church of Scientology's main line repeatedly and threatened to kill its leader, David Miscavige.

"They are not worth the paper they're written on," the attorney said about marriage licenses that clerk's office employees issued with a judge's approval.

The International Organization For Migration attributed the increased number of displaced people to the recent spike in Boko Haram attacks.

The ruling came in response to a Spanish transgender man's request to act as godfather to his nephew.

The suspect's DNA did not match the sample found on evidence believed to have been left behind in an escape taxi by the bomber, police said.

Up to 60 tombstones were desecrated earlier this week in Denmark, in the second attack on a Muslim cemetery there in just a few months.

Wesolowski was accused of paying for sex with children and possession of child pornography. He was the first clergyman of his rank to face such proceedings from the Vatican.

A series of recent tests conducted on the highly controversial “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” papyrus fragment suggests that it might just be authentic.

The creator of a new show, which has not been picked up by any network, says it will be like a religious version of “American Idol.”

The church, which boasts 15 million members worldwide, has softened its tone on gay rights issues in recent years.

Leaders of the Khoisan community voiced their grievances, including discrimination for not being "black enough."

Despite recent efforts to nourish the nation's children, nearly 1,000 die from malnutrition-related causes every day. That's 361,000 each year.

A British national masterminded the killings of Ananta Bijoy Das and Avijit Roy, an official said Tuesday. Four secular bloggers have been lynched in the country this year.

Nigeria's Adamawa state has earmarked more than $1 million for "prayer warriors" to seek divine intervention against the violent insurgents.

The Oktaha, Oklahoma, gun range's sign read: "This privately owned business is a Muslim-free establishment, we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

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