The bill will now return for the fourth time to the National Assembly – France’s lower house – to which the final decision may be given.

Landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed more than a dozen people in the past few days, including children and women in the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas did not say whether it planned to take the crucial step of disarming or handing over security to an international force,…

Between April and June this year, there were 83 attacks against Christians in Israel or Israeli-occupied territories, compared with 44 in the first quarter.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s coffin was carried through Shia shrines in Najaf and Karbala, Iraq, as part of mourning ceremonies following his death in a US-Israel …

Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s coffin was taken to Iraq’s Najaf for a procession, drawing large Shia crowds and highlighting rare cross-bo…

(RNS) — Šri Mahã Vallabha Ganapati Devasthãnam, the second-oldest traditional Hindu temple built by Indian immigrants, marked the anniversary of its consecrati…

(RNS) — Artists and designers say a new generation of Judaica is helping previously unaffiliated and less traditionally observant Jews explore spirituality, ri…

(RNS) — 'Our churches, our mosques, our synagogues, our places of worship will become democracy hubs,' said Minister JaNaé Bates Imari, co-executive director o…

(RNS) — Her goal, she told a Pittsburgh JCC audience, is to show Israel in a lens not political or religious, but to cook, tell stories and share who she is au…

(RNS) — Like many of us, Leo fears the tools of the digital age — which hold such promise — have been made poisonous.