Politics aside, his victory is historic. If elected in November, Mamdani would become the first Muslim and South Asian mayor ...

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Kosovo’s Constitutional Court has asked the country’s newly elected lawmakers in Parliament to end three months of political stalemate and elect a new speaker within 30 days. The court’s ...

(RNS) — Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim state assemblyman running for mayor in New York, led the Democratic primary election on ...

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According to the latest Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research Center, 63% of adults in Rhode Island identify as Christians as of 2024 — the most popular religion in the state. Need a break?

According to the latest Religious Landscape Study from Pew Research Center, 52% of adults in Massachusetts identify as Christians as of 2024 — the most popular religion in the state. Need a break?

Ironically, Pajenga says that the Albania's transition to democracy compounded the problem. "During communism, people had one fixed job from 07:00 until 15:00," she recalls. "When democracy came ...

First, from 1946 to 1991, Albania was ruled by hardline communists who effectively sealed the small, mountainous nation off from the outside world, leading Edi Rama, the nation's current prime ...