The prayers began late on the eve of the New Year in Hong Kong, where people annually line up at a Taoist temple to try to be the first to put their incense sticks into the stands at 11 p.m.

The church in Mt. Comfort is one of several local congregations who, as a new year begins, set aside focused time for prayer and/or fasting. Greenfield Faith Church had a prayer service at 3 p.m ...

The attacker, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Texas, drove a rented truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day.