During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups ...

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The hurting dad of Father John Maina Ndegwa, Samwel Ndegwa has opened up on the final words the slain Catholic priest uttered ...

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It includes artists who seem to have gone through a religious phase, one that left a mark on them, such as Toni Morrison, ...

Two days of fighting were set off by an audio recording purporting to feature a member of Syria’s Druze community criticizing the Prophet Muhammad, and quickly escalated, leaving a number of ...

The man convicted of trying to stab Salman Rushdie to death was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for the attack, which left the acclaimed author critically injured and blind in one eye.

This article is authored by Mahendranath Sudhindranath, senior research fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, ...

Kashmiri art once outshone China, and its poets were sought after as far south as the Deccan — to say nothing of the vast reach of its textiles.