religious strife

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has refused to include a novel about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man in the country's high school c...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia executes a prominent opposition Shiite cleric convicted of terrorism charges, s...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday charged two Jewish extremists in an arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents last July — culmi...

PARIS (AP) — In Bangkok, police-flanked partygoers rang in the new year at the site of a deadly bombing that took place just months ago. In Paris, res...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One nation, two wars, a quarter-million lives lost, millions forced from their homes, and still no end in sight for the pitiless, se...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the aftermath of last month's Paris attacks, New York City officials have bolstered security and quietly stepped up outreach to Mus...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Pope Francis made a historic visit to the last remaining Muslim neighborhood in Central African Republic's cap...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An 18-year-old man arrested in the fatal shooting of an Indianapolis pastor's pregnant wife during an apparent home invasion will ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is going ahead with plans to visit the conflict-wracked Central African Republic, but his top bodyguard is doing an u...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Muslims around the U.S. are facing backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including vandalism to mosques and Islamic c...

BAGHDAD (AP) — As the deadly attacks in Paris made horrifically clear, the Islamic State group is determined to establish itself as the dominant jihad...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The FBI has opened a hate crime investigation into an attack on a Muslim woman in which police say a 19-year-old Indiana Univ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence (all times local). ___ 9:45 p.m. Israeli police say an attack at a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — As a wave of violence sweeps across Jerusalem, victims and perpetrators are often surprised to be reunited — at each other's bedside ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish and Muslim grassroots groups, self-declared defenders of their faiths, have played a key role in rising Israeli-Palestinian te...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago teenager already charged with punching a Sikh man during what authorities describe as a road rage incident has...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Clerk Mike Johnston prays twice a day, once each morning and once each night, and asks the Lord to understand the decision he m...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has jailed a Jewish extremist for six months without charges or trial, expanding a crackdown against militant Jews and deployi...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities kicked off a promised crackdown on Jewish extremists following last week's deadly arson attack on a Palestinian f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five weeks after nine people were slain at a black Charleston church, federal authorities have indicted the suspected shooter on doz...