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Pope Francis will celebrate the first papal Mass in her shrine outside Santiago on Tuesday.
The billionaire has sought spiritual guidance from these pastors.
The handwritten letters, sent to mosques in five states, said Donald Trump will do to Muslims “what Hitler did to the Jews."
Liberty just hired the disgraced athletic director who left Baylor after a report that he did not inform police about a gang rape.
They were the first race-fueled incidents at the Evansville, Ind., church in Todd Robertson's 17 years as pastor.
The last time South Dakota had a full-time rabbi may have been 1982.
Blue may be the color of sadness, but it is also the color of hope.
She is well-known in the Michigan community.
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Almost a year after her father was killed in the San Bernardino terror attack last December, Kate Bowman etched the word “love” in yellow chalk on the sidewalk outside a mosque.
Several more mosques nationwide have reported receiving a hate-filled letter from California that warns Muslims to leave the country or face genocide.
A Dallas man who held a sign of support outside a mosque says his “You Belong” message was prompted by hatred directed at Muslims as part of the recent presidential election.
A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University might have been inspired by the Islamic State group and a former al-Qaida leader, investigators said Wednesday.
The Latest on a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University (all times local):
A Muslim civil rights official says a Michigan mosque has received a hate-filled letter sent to Islamic centers nationwide.
A Minneapolis man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for writing and mailing a threatening letter to a mosque.
A Dallas man who held a sign of support outside a mosque says his “You Belong” message was prompted by hatred directed at Muslims as part of the recent presidential election.
Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali-born student accused of carrying out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University this week, reportedly protested on his Facebook page about the killing of minority Muslims in Myanmar. Muslim Rohingya face discrimination and violence from the Buddhist majority in the country, also called Burma. Their plight generally goes unnoticed by the world at large, even though some rights activists say their persecution amounts to ethnic cleansing. Here are several things to know about the group:
The white man prosecutors accuse of gunning down nine black parishioners in a bid to start a race war showed no signs of a racial agenda Tuesday, taking a calm, businesslike approach to selecting a jury that would ultimately decide whether he’s put to death.
Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are investigating the slaying of a young black man as a possible hate crime amid growing concern over racially motivated incidents and attacks nationwide.
Law enforcement officials condemned a hate-filled letter Monday directed at several California mosques that warned Muslims to leave the country to avoid being exterminated.
Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are investigating the slaying of a young black man as a possible hate crime amid growing concern over racially motivated incidents and attacks nationwide.
Law enforcement officials have condemned a hate-filled letter received by several California mosques that said Muslims would be exterminated by President-elect Donald Trump.
South Dakota’s small, tight-knit Jewish community has made do without a rabbi for several years, but the state’s status as the only one with no rabbi will change this winter when a family arrives from New York to open a Jewish community center.
