Spurning the secular state schools, some Muslim students have found religious accommodation at private ones.

Some of the country’s Roman Catholic schools have become refugees for Muslim students seeking equal opportunities and religious accommodation.

While most Arab television dramas are produced in Syria and Egypt, the Arab world’s biggest TV market, in Saudi Arabia, is by far the most culturally conservative.

Buddhism in Thailand can take unexpected forms, embracing animist superstition, magical practices — and the entrepreneurial spirit of many senior monks.

While most Arab television dramas are produced in Syria and Egypt, the Arab world’s biggest TV market, in Saudi Arabia, is by far the most culturally conservative.

Pope Benedict XVI is looking to reconquer Europe, if not in numbers, then at the political table.

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Paris after saying he was “a messenger of peace and brotherhood” in this country that has long drawn sharp distinctions between church and state.

Before renovations began at Izumo Taisha, one of Japan?s oldest and most famous Shinto shrines, it opened to the public for the first time in six decades.

Slowly, tattooing is overcoming an ancient stigma in Beijing.

The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, announced a consensus to seek the pact among all parties to the ecclesiastical controversy over homosexuality.