More than 20 million Muslims across China began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, on Wednesday.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for 24 Hindus convicted of playing a role in the massacre of Muslims during the Gujarat religious riots in 2002, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state.
The people of Afghanistan like Muslims in other countries observe Ramazan or fasting month from Monday during which they do not eat and drink from dawn to dusk.
US President Barack Obama made his first visit to a US mosque on Wednesday, in an effort to allay the fears of Americans accustomed to pop-culture portrayals of Muslims as terrorists, and to reassure Muslim American youth about their place in the nation.
A severed pig's head was left outside a mosque in Philadelphia. An Islamic center in Florida was defaced. A Sikh temple in California was vandalized by someone who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane reference to the Islamic State group.
French are almost equally divided on whether to have limited freedom of expression after the deadly attack at the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo nearly two weeks ago.
Millions of Chinese Muslims celebrated the Corban Festival, or Eid al-Adha, on Sunday.
Police curfew was declared in a Sri Lankan town on Sunday after Muslims clashed with a Buddhist hardline organization. A large number of people were injured while two shops and a van were set on fire, local media reported.
Millions of Muslims across China on Thursday celebrated Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan -- a season of fasting and spiritual reflection.
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