The violence underscores the government’s challenge to assert nationwide control as ethnic and religious tensions simmer ...

Motawassim repeatedly expressed regret, calling the incident an "impulsive act" triggered by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

About 20 years ago, the Russian state began a large-scale operation to take control of Orthodox parishes all over Europe. Some of these had, over time, broken ties with the Moscow patriarchate.

France is not the only Western country to insist on the separation of church and state - but it does so more militantly than any other. Secularism is the closest thing the French have to a state ...

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.