Religion in the United States

The government on Friday submitted an amendment in Parliament writing off a 44-million-euro fine the state had imposed on tobacco company SEKAP over smuggling infractions.
SYRIZA had voted a similar amendment in 2017, but an appeals court in northern Greece upheld the fine in 2017, noting that it did not have a retroactive application.

Imprisoned American pastor Andrew Brunson goes on trial in Turkey

A funeral is planned Friday for the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in the US Midwest who died last week at age 89.

Even scarier than the thought of Donald Trump as America’s 45th president — in an election whose outcome has shaken liberals and conservatives alike — is that of who will fill his cabinet come January 20, 2017.

Pope Francis has named 17 new cardinals - 13 of them under age 80 and thus eligible to vote in a conclave to elect his successor. Three of the new cardinals are Americans, including moderate Chicago Archbishop Blaise Cupich and Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin.

Barack Obama offered an impassioned rebuttal of "inexcusable" Republican election rhetoric against Muslims on Feb. 3, on his first trip to an American mosque since becoming president seven years ago.

Obama, whose grandfather converted to Islam, made the short trip to the Islamic Society of Baltimore to call on Americans not to be "bystanders to bigotry."  

U.S. President Barack Obama plans to visit a mosque near Baltimore on Feb. 3 to make a plea for tolerance and religious freedom, the White House said Jan. 31.

President Barack Obama said June 22 that Americans stand united in rejecting the targeting of any religious or ethnic group as he marked Islam's holy month of Ramadan.

After 12 years in power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by now has established a good record of initiating unexpected controversies. Last week, he ignited yet another one, which went globally viral, by claiming, “Muslims discovered America, not Christopher Columbus.”