Ohio Amish set for sentencing in beard attacks
More than 50 Amish children could lose one parent to prison — and most of the youngest could lose both — on Friday when 16 men and women are sentenced ...
French try to root out would-be jihadists at home
France, waging war against Islamist extremists in Mali, is on the hunt for would-be fighters at home, fearful that they will join militants in the ...
Palestinian officials: Obama must pressure Israel
The Palestinians on Thursday responded coolly to a White House announcement that President Barack Obama will not bring any bold new peace initiatives ...
Archdiocese adds LA clergy docs after complaints
After alleged victims complained of key omissions, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has said it would release additional documents from ...
Ariz. woman gives sexual details about slain lover
A woman charged with killing her lover in the shower of his Arizona home described in graphic detail Wednesday how he made repeated sexual advances ...
Boy Scouts delay decision on policy excluding gays
Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays.
Catholic bishops conflicted over gays, immigration
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are in a difficult position as the debate over immigration reform gets underway: The immigrant-built American ...
Syria, Sunni-Shiite split arise at Muslim summit
An Islamic summit that opened in Egypt on Wednesday lay bare the multiple divisions within the Muslim and Arab worlds, with conflicting approaches to ...
Vatican sex crimes prosecutor seeks transparency
The Vatican's new sex crimes prosecutor has insisted on the need for transparency about the church's failures to protect children from sex abuse by ...
Iran offering reeling Egypt 'big credit line'
Iran's president on Wednesday offered to help rescue Egypt's failing economy with a "big credit line," another sign of improving relations between two ...
Police to review Los Angeles clergy abuse files
Police will review abusive priests' personnel files to see if the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles committed any crimes, ...
Iranian leader visits Egypt in warming of ties
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Cairo on Tuesday, the first by an Iranian leader in more than three decades, highlights efforts by Egypt's ...
Two Scouting families; opposite views on gay ban
Despite a shared affection for Scouting, the Tessier family in Maryland and the Comers in Tennessee hope for opposite outcomes this week as leaders ...
British lawmakers vote in favor of gay marriage
A bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Britain cleared a major hurdle Tuesday, as lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposals championed ...
At 900 years, Knights of Malta confronts modernity
Matthew Festing — aka His Most Eminent Highness The Prince and Grand Master of the Knights of Malta — bounds into the sitting room of his magnificent ...
Israel's Netanyahu hits snags in building team
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to take office for a third time, his attempts to form a new coalition government have gotten off ...
AP Interview: Egypt's pope criticizes Islamists
Egypt's Coptic patriarch delivered a cautious but unusually sharp criticism of the nation's Islamist leadership in an interview with The Associated ...
New doubts Egypt will get $4.8 billion IMF loan
New signs of distress in Egypt's economy emerged Tuesday with the disclosure that foreign currency reserves — already at critically low levels — fell ...
Report: Ireland oversaw harsh Catholic laundries
Ireland's government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor and usually against ...
Iran president visits Egypt in warming of ties
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed the crisis in Syria with his Egyptian counterpart Tuesday in the first visit by an Iranian leader to ...
Prosecutors want life term for Ohio Amish leader
Federal prosecutors want a life sentence for the leader of an Amish breakaway group convicted in a series of beard- and hair-cutting attacks, saying ...
Kashmir girl band breaks up after threats
The first all-girl rock band in Indian-controlled Kashmir has decided to disband after only one concert because of threats its teenage members ...
Facts and figures about the Order of Malta
WHAT IS THE ORDER OF MALTA? The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is at once a Roman Catholic lay religious order, a humanitarian organization, and ...
AP Interview: Morocco Islamists warn of unrest
Morocco likes to project itself as unique in the Middle East in finding a third way between revolution and repression amid the uprisings of the Arab ...
Lawyers: NYPD's Muslim spying violates 1985 pact
Civil rights lawyers urged a judge Monday to stop the New York Police Department from routinely observing Muslims in restaurants, bookstores and ...
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