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A court in Kano, northern Nigeria, recently convicted an atheist for making social media posts it found to be blasphemous against Islam. After a lengthy trial, Mubarak Bala pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 years in prison. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade asked Islamic law expert AbdulRazzaq Alaro to…

Republican Senate hopeful Mehmet Oz is stepping up his criticism of a far-right candidate in Pennsylvania who is gaining traction ahead of Tuesday’s primary election

Major political parties are drawing more extensively on diversity data to help them target marginal seats

Cases of mob attacks because of alleged blasphemy happen intermittently in Nigeria, especially in the north.

PHILADELPHIA — Wearing a bright smile, Kathy Barnette shook hands and introduced herself around the patio of a Montgomery County country club: “I’m Kathy, and I’m running for United States Senate,” she said.

The fast-growing population of Jewish immigrants to the United Arab Emirates  may feel freer than ever to express their identity in the autocratic Arab sheikhdom, which has sought to brand itself as an oasis of religious tolerance

Lawyers for a Malian Islamist rebel accused of being central to the persecution of residents in Timbuktu and the destruction of the city's holy sites told judges at his war crimes trial he was wrongly targeted.

In their latest decree, the Taliban say it is ‘required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab’.

Lt. Khadijah Simmons had a spotless military record. But when she became Lt. Khadijah X, everything changed