The latest saints were proclaimed Sunday during a Mass celebrated by Francis in St. Peter's Square.

Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar since late August.

Thailand is preparing to bid a grand final farewell for the late king with an elaborate five-day funeral ceremony that will begin on 25 October.

Authorities say spectators should wear clothing more in line with "the nature of Saudi society" - which has divided opinions.

More Rohingya refugees have chosen to trek for days in monsoon weather to find sanctuary in one of the poorest regions of a poor country. Yet the Myanmar government denies ethnic cleansing and says "clearance operations" have ended.

Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith, west London says students can use their 'preferred pronoun' and it must promote 'greater wholeness for transgender individuals'.

The holiest day in the Shia calendar is observed on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year, to mourn the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

Many devotees beat their heads and chests with chains and knives, and gash their heads with swords to show their grief and echo the suffering of Imam Hussein.

The fighting in Marawi is so intense that it took soldiers a whole week just to cross one street in the embattled city.

Study confirms age and contents of an old sack is in line with medieval myth.

Survivors say Vatican has shown no real commitment to holding clergy abusers accountable.

Hate crimes have soared since Donald Trump imposed travel ban on Muslim-majority nations.

The change, led by President Beji Caid Essebsi, was met with strong condemnation and protest from Muslim clerics.

Some struggle to decipher the old-fashioned language.

Religion continues to permeate UK politics and society, even as a majority of people ditch faith.

Perhaps surprisingly, these weddings have a far higher success rate than traditional love marriages, with lower divorce rates.

Chavie Weisberger will raise the children to be Hasidic but will not have to hide her sexuality from them.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of possible ethnic cleansing and a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Christians overall remain a large majority in the US, at nearly 70% of Americans.

Idols of the elephant-headed god, Lord Ganesha – large and small – are carried through the streets and immersed in bodies of water.

Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen has travelled the world tracking down men who claim to be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

The Rohingya are effectively stateless. Neither Bangladesh nor Myanmar recognises them as citizens. They live in apartheid-like conditions.

IBTimes UK looks at how Eid al-Adha is celebrated around the world, from going home on an overcrowded Bangladesh train, to selecting a sheep and getting it home.

Two million Muslims from around the world gathered at Mount Arafat on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca.

150 religious leaders signed the statement that points out ways in which the Bible says how homosexuality and transgenderism is against Christianity.

Kingdom authorities have reportedly denied entry to more than 450,000 Hajj violators and over 200,000 buses carrying illegal pilgrims.