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China revokes new Shanghai Catholic bishop's title
In a fresh challenge to Vatican authority, China has revoked the title of a new Catholic bishop in Shanghai who outraged Chinese officials by ...
Ethiopia Muslims rally on Fridays as tension rises
As midday prayers came to an end at the Grand Anwar mosque in Ethiopia's capital, worshippers continued on to what has become a regular second act on ...
Jerusalem's secular Israeli minority showing life
Hundreds of people packed a Jerusalem community center recently for what many in Jerusalem consider a subversive act: They attended a lecture on ...
Devout Israeli Jews moving to Arab-Jewish cities
Orthodox Jewish Israelis, the driving force of the West Bank settlement movement, have begun to turn their attention inward to Israel itself, moving ...
Prison seminary program expands in California
Robert Ross' mother died while he was in prison for robbing a bank and he hasn't seen his 12-year-old son since the boy was in diapers. For all that ...
19 killed at central Nigeria church Bible study
Three men entered a central Nigerian church just before Bible study began, but instead of joining the worship service they opened fire, killing at ...
Israeli draft pits secular Jews vs. ultra-Orthodox
Deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, a Jerusalem bastion of hardline ultra-Orthodox Jews, hundreds of bearded young men in black suits have their noses ...
Turkey urged to ease up on Greek Orthodox seminary
Turkey's top Muslim cleric has supported calls for the government to allow the reopening of a Greek Orthodox seminary. Mehmet Gormez said that ...
Israeli draft panel submits view, defies Netanyahu
Israel's vice premier demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accept a panel's contentious guidelines for reforming the country's military ...
Israel's Netanyahu faces coalition crisis
Israel's prime minister on Tuesday moved to contain the first major crisis in his newly expanded coalition government after his most significant ...
Israeli PM dissolves committee to reform draft law
Israel's prime minister on Monday dissolved a high-profile committee assigned to reform the country's military draft law to spread the burden among ...