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Every year on November 5, skies across England, Scotland and Wales are illuminated by fireworks as Brits head out into the night to enjoy Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.

Sen. Ted Budd and Rep. Mark Alford introduced legislation Thursday afternoon that would combat the persecution of religious groups in China. 

There is a palpable fear and tension in communities across the United States already scarred by the violent incidents stemming from the early days of the Israel and Hamas war, with some equating the bigotry and hatred being experienced by Jews, Palestinians, Muslims and other groups across the country to that of a post-9/11 world.

Deeds are preceded by words; words are assembled into ideologies; atrocious deeds are preceded by deadly ideologies. The ideology of Hamas – which was translated into reality in a horrible manner on October 7 2023 – is articulated in its Charter, a lengthy and detailed document authored by Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin in 1988. In order to understand its relevance to the

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared Iftar with Ukrainian Muslim soldiers observing Ramadan on Friday, in what he said would become an annual “new tradition of respect.”

The Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas is a religious, antisemitic document that calls for uncompromising war against the Jews until Judgement Day and rejects ceding even an inch of the land of Palestine. It declares that the only valid way to liberate Palestine is to wage jihad against Israel until achieving either victory or death, and proclaims this to be a

Japan’s government on Friday asked a court to order the dissolution of the Unification Church branch in Japan following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.

In Bangladesh in the days after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel, religious organizations, political parties, and students on university campuses, and workers' groups led a series of street protests against Israel. The same sentiments are also reflected in newspapers and columns. However, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which dropped Israel exclusion