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Central African Republic to hold national elections

Central African Republic will hold much-delayed national elections Wednesday that residents and the ...

Dec 30, 2015 04:25 AM EST

Pope in Africa will seek to bridge Christian-Muslim faultlines

Pope Francis steps onto African soil for the first time on Wednesday to address the continent's fast...

Nov 24, 2015 11:42 PM EST

Kansas white supremacist sentenced to death for three murders

A judge on Tuesday issued the death penalty for the white supremacist convicted of shooting to death...

Nov 10, 2015 09:14 PM EST

In Indonesia, minorities under threat from Muslim hardliners

When a mob of Muslims swooped on a little church deep in rural Aceh in Indonesia this month, the loc...

Oct 28, 2015 09:17 PM EDT

PM Modi calls beef killing "unwelcome" as intolerance concerns grow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condemned the murder of a Muslim man over rumours he ate beef, in h...

Oct 14, 2015 11:10 PM EDT

Italy's migrant crisis intensifies with murder arrests, drownings

Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant...

Apr 17, 2015 06:08 AM EDT

Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel

Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 America...

Mar 21, 2015 06:35 PM EDT

ICC should prosecute Islamic State for Iraq genocide, war crimes: U.N.

The United Nations human rights office said on Thursday that Islamic State fighters may have committ...

Mar 19, 2015 07:08 AM EDT

Islamic State snatches 220 from Christian villages: Syria monitoring group

Islamic State militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northe...

Feb 26, 2015 07:39 AM EST

Pope decries beheading of Egyptian Christians in Libya

Pope Francis expressed deep sadness at the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya, depa...

Feb 17, 2015 06:24 AM EST

Anatomy of Nigeria’s $20 billion 'leak'

In late 2013, Nigeria's then central bank governor Lamido Sanusi wrote to President Goodluck Jonatha...

Feb 06, 2015 07:45 AM EST

Hardline Indian Hindus become Modi's enemies from within

In an ashram near the Ganges river in the Himalayan foothills, Indian priest-turned-politician Saksh...

Feb 03, 2015 04:28 AM EST

Jindal criticized by Louisiana newspapers over Muslim 'no-go zone' remarks

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, was criticized on Wednesda...

Jan 22, 2015 12:41 AM EST

Syria rebels in south emerge as West's last hope as moderates crushed elsewhere

With moderate rebels facing defeat by al Qaeda in Syria's north, groups holding a corner of the sout...

Nov 13, 2014 08:41 AM EST

Brazil's evangelicals gain clout, close to electing first president

Brazil's increasingly powerful evangelical Christians are tantalizingly close to electing one of the...

Sep 29, 2014 06:09 AM EDT

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