Iraqis prepare for first vote since US withdrawal
Even the dead are not spared the campaigning for Iraq's upcoming local elections. Brightly colored placards blanket major streets and hang around the ...
A list of papal advisers on Curia reform
Pope Francis on Saturday named eight cardinals to a panel that will help advise him running the church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, or Curia
Pope faces tough decisions as Vatican reforms loom
Pope Francis has spent much of his first month as pope charming ordinary Catholics with his ordinary yet extraordinary papal ways and making clear he ...
Egypt leader and military chief put tension aside
Egypt's Islamist president made a strong show of unity with the military, standing by the country's top general and warning in a statement broadcast ...
Scandal of disgraced French taxman widens
He feels hounded and, like a marked man, says he changes locations every few days. Less than a month ago, Jerome Cahuzac, France's disgraced former ...
Egypt's legislature approves election law
Egypt's Islamist-dominated legislature approved a revised version of the law organizing the country's parliamentary elections on Thursday, after a ...
France's top rabbi takes leave amid scandal
France's top rabbi announced Thursday he is taking leave from his post, hoping to end a scandal that has unsettled the Jewish community after he ...
Widower accepts apology in Irish abortion case
The husband of a woman who died after being denied an abortion in an Irish hospital accepted an apology Thursday from a midwife who, when explaining ...
Israel detains 5 women over prayer at Western Wall
Israeli police on Thursday detained five women at a Jerusalem holy site for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for ...
Liberal Jews see a victory in proposed prayer area
Israeli authorities have proposed establishing a new section at the Western Wall where men and women can pray together, a groundbreaking initiative ...
Egypt's pope sharply criticizes president
Egypt's Coptic Christian pope delivered an unprecedented direct criticism of the Islamist president Tuesday after a mob attack on the church's main ...
Pope launched sainthood case for Argentine priests
It was time for Mass, but no one opened the church door. When a teenager climbed through a window to investigate, he found five bloodied bodies, ...
Egypt's revolutionary cleric suspended over sermon
A Muslim cleric who became known as "the preacher of the revolution" for his sermons in Tahrir Square during the uprising against ousted President ...
Austria: Ex-priest charged in 15 child abuse cases
Austrian authorities have charged a defrocked priest with sexually abusing 15 children as head of a Catholic boarding school. They say Alfons August ...
After violence, Egypt opposition presses Morsi
After Egypt's worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt's leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday ...
Pressured bishop will not honor late cardinal
Reacting to criticism, an Austrian bishop says he has changed his mind and will not attend a memorial Mass for a cardinal accused of molesting young ...
Hamas shaves heads of Gaza youths with long hair
Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets, bundling them into jeeps, mocking them ...
Egypt: Clashes outside Copt cathedral leave 1 dead
Christians angered by the killing of four Christians in weekend sectarian violence clashed Sunday with a mob throwing rocks and firebombs, killing one ...
Syrian regime launches counteroffensive on rebels
After weeks of rebel gains in the south, the Syrian regime launched a counteroffensive on Sunday with widespread airstrikes and an operation that ...
Report: Anti-Semitic incidents surged in 2012
Israeli researchers warned Sunday of a sudden upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks, topped by a deadly school shooting in France, noting a link to the rise ...
Al-Qaida leader urges Muslims to unite in struggle
Al-Qaida's leader has urged Muslims in Arab Spring countries to unite to institute an Islamic state, while warning France that its intervention in ...
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