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Diane Douglas

Arizona educators consider altering evolution references

The Arizona Department of Education is considering changes to school science standards, including instances when it may ...

Muslim inmates sue Alaska corrections officials over policy

Muslim inmates are suing state corrections officials, arguing that they are not provided adequate nourishment as they break ...

Iran's Khamenei criticizes US over hard-line stance

Iran's supreme leader criticized the U.S. on Wednesday over its hard-line stance toward the country since President Donald ...

Prominent Baptist leader removed as head of Texas seminary

A former head of the Southern Baptist Convention was removed Wednesday as president of a Texas seminary following allegations ...

Mormon missionaries pulled from Nicaragua due to unrest

The Mormon church is pulling 169 missionaries from Nicaragua because of growing political instability in the Central American ...

Pope laments 'hemorrhaging' of priests and nuns in Europe

Pope Francis voiced alarm Monday at the "hemorrhaging" of nuns and priests in Italy and Europe, saying God only knows how ...

LGBT community cheers pope's 'God made you like this' remark

Pope Francis' reported comments to a gay man that "God made you like this" have been embraced by the LGBT community as ...

Texas mourners endure grief that 'none of us can comprehend'

Congregations in this deeply religious community near Houston gathered Sunday for their first services since a gunman blasted ...

Haider al-Abadi, Muqtada al-Sadr

Iraq's al-Sadr says next government will be 'inclusive'

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in Iraq's parliamentary elections, has sought ...

Pope Francis to invest 14 new cardinals in June

Pope Francis on Sunday revealed his latest picks to be cardinals in the Catholic Church, including his chief aide for helping ...

Muqtada al-Sadr

Iraq's al-Sadr, promising reform, is constrained by Iran

Iraq's Muqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in ...

Jimmy Carter gently jabs Trump at Liberty commencement

Former President Jimmy Carter took a gentle poke at President Donald Trump at the start of a commencement address to ...

Donald Trump, Jared Kushner

White House pushes ahead with Mideast peace plan

The Trump administration is aiming to roll out its much-hyped but long-delayed Middle East peace plan next month amid signs ...

Muqtada al-Sadr

Militant-turned-populist cleric Sadr wins Iraqi election

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's political coalition has won the most seats in Iraq's national parliamentary ...

At OIC, Muslim nations condemn Israel and US, call for unity

Muslim nations on Friday condemned Israel and the inauguration of the American embassy in contested Jerusalem as a ...

Gaza border protests resume as UN calls for inquiry

Palestinians resumed their fiery protests at Gaza's border with Israel on Friday as a U.N. human rights body criticized ...

NOT REAL NEWS: False claim of Mormon apology for racism

The Mormon church did not issue an apology for a "history of racism" during a news conference this week with NAACP leaders, ...

Jared Kushner

US readies Mideast peace plan, but threatens Palestinian aid

The Trump administration is aiming to roll out its much-hyped but long-delayed Middle East peace plan next month amid signs ...

Chile's bishops resign en masse over sex abuse cover-up

In the biggest shake-up yet in the Catholic Church's long-running sex abuse scandal, every active Chilean bishop offered to ...

Church with $2K in gas driller's stock wins methane vote

A church with a minuscule stake in Range Resources has won shareholder approval of a resolution to force Pennsylvania's ...