A refugee camp in South Sudan's Unity state was bombed on Thursday, South Sudan officials and witnesses said, threatening to raise tensions with Sudan.
The red poppy flower is a symbol of the remembrance of the dead from the Great War.
Christians and Hindus together account for only about 3 or 4 percent of Pakistan’s population.
The Greek nation has had a vastly different history and trajectory from the dominant countries of Western Europe.
For the first time, a transsexual woman and an openly gay man were sworn into the Polish parliament on Tuesday, as Anna Grodzka and Robert Biedron took their elected seats in Warsaw.
A stampede at a religious festival in northern India, on the banks of the Ganges River, killed at least 16 people Monday, officials said.
World-wide, Muslims are slaughtering animals in celebration Eid al-Adha, a holiday based on Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his own son for Allah.
Fighters who toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi in Libya's uprising will keep their weapons for now to aid in security, an Islamist commander said.
A suicide bomber killed eight people during religious celebrations in northern Afghanistan on Sunday.
Sunday marked the beginning of Eid al Adha 2011, the first day of the three-day religious holiday for Muslims worldwide to celebrate Prophet Abraham's sacrifice with mass prayers, feasting of meat and sweets and well-wishing and tranquility.
Are you still pondering about the much awaited cataclysmic 2011 dates - Oct 21 and Oct 28, a prediction that passed by quite uneventfully? It could still be worthwhile to muscle up courage and brace up for the next two dark dates of 11/11/11 or Dec. 21, 2012.
Gunmen attacked a church in Nigeria late Thursday, killing at least two people.
A group of almost 30 protesters have been occupying Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's Capitol Hill office since Thursday morning.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has condemned the petrol bomb attack on the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hedbo, saying it was an assault on freedom of expression.
A 17-year-old girl was found unconscious hanging from a bathtub in St. Louis, Missouri's Creepyworld Haunted House.
In God We Trust was officially reaffirmed as the official national motto of the United States on Wednesday by the House of Representatives. Why did the Republicans bring this vote up now, and was it a good idea?
Gay couples will be able to take part in civil partnerships in church and other places of worship next month when a ban restricting gay ceremonies in religious institutions in England is lifted.
The offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hedbo, which published a special Arab Spring edition Wednesday with the prophet Muhammad as guest editor-in-chief, were destroyed in a petrol bomb attack overnight, police said.
Several religious leaders and organizations, including members of the Faithful Budget Campaign, will meet with U.S. Senators on Wednesday to stress the ethical obligation they have to preserve foreign assistance funding.
Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly says it has named the Prophet Mohammed as editor-in-chief for its next issue to celebrate the election win of Tunisia's Islamist party.
Both are stunning, both are Victoria's Secret Angels and both are competing with each other to be the ultimate Halloween queen.
All Saints' Day is celebrated around the world from Spain to the Philippines on Nov. 1.
