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Taliban reject UN concerns over laws banning women’s voices and bare faces in public
By Associated Press — August 29, 2024
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Wednesday issued the country’s first set of laws to discourage vice and promote virtue. They include a requirement for a woman to conceal her face, body and voice outside the home. They also ban images of living beings, such as photographs.
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Connecticut law that eliminated religious vaccination exemption
By Associated Press — June 25, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Connecticut law requires students to receive certain immunizations before enrolling in school, allowing some medical exemptions. Prior to 2021, students also could seek religious exemptions.
Russian region of Dagestan holds a day of mourning after attacks kill 20 people, officials say
By Associated Press — June 25, 2024
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s southern region of Dagestan held the first of three days of mourning Monday following an attack by Islamic militants who authorities say killed 20 people, mostly police, and attacked Christian and Jewish houses of worship in assaults in two cities.
Armed militants in Dagestan kill priest and police in attacks on churches, synagogue and police post
By Associated Press — June 23, 2024
MOSCOW (AP) — The gunmen opened fire on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police post in two cities, according to the authorities.
Longtime Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler, who was accused of sexual abuse, dies at 94
By Associated Press — June 17, 2024
HOUSTON (AP) — Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexually abusing boys and young men and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, has died. He was 94.
Oxford University to return bronze sculpture of Hindu saint to India
By Associated Press — June 11, 2024
LONDON (AP) — The planned repatriation comes amid a push by foreign governments, including Nigeria, Egypt and Greece, as well as Indigenous peoples from North America to Australia, seeking to reclaim precious antiquities looted or acquired by questionable means during the heyday of the British Empire.
India investigates attack by suspected militants in Kashmir that killed 9 on Hindu pilgrimage
By Associated Press — June 11, 2024
NEW DELHI (AP) — A police officer said some of the victims had gunshot wounds and blamed the attack on Muslim militants who are fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which left 33 others injured.
Pope re-creates the 2014 Mideast peace prayer in Vatican Gardens to beg for an end to Gaza conflict
By Associated Press — June 7, 2024
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis gathered the Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors to the Vatican Gardens on Friday to pray for an end to the war in Gaza, marking the 10th anniversary of a similar encounter with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents with a new appeal for peace. “Every day I pray that this war will […]
Vatican cardinal urges Europeans to remember own migratory roots ahead of European elections
By Associated Press — June 6, 2024
ROME (AP) — Francis has made reaching out to migrants a priority of his pontificate and has called for receiving countries, within their means, to welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants.
Man who attacked Muslim lawmaker in Connecticut sentenced to 5 years in prison
By Associated Press — June 6, 2024
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Khan, a Democrat from the Hartford suburb of Windsor, said in a statement that the assault “highlighted serious gaps in our mental health care system and victim safety and protection.”
China is accelerating the forced urbanization of rural Tibetans, rights group says
By Associated Press — May 22, 2024
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The international rights organization cited a trove of Chinese internal reports contradicting official pronouncements that all Tibetans who have been forced to move, with their past homes destroyed on departure, did so voluntary.
The Rev. William Lawson, Texas civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King Jr, dies at 95
By Associated Press — May 15, 2024
HOUSTON (AP) — Lawson’s longtime church, Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in that Texas city, announced on its website that he had died on Tuesday.
Chiefs kicker Butker congratulates women graduates and says most are more excited about motherhood
By Associated Press — May 15, 2024
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The three-time Super Bowl champion delivered the roughly 20-minute address Saturday at the Catholic private liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas.
Michigan man accused of making explosives to target Satanic Temple in Massachusetts
By Associated Press — May 9, 2024
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Luke Terpstra was charged in western Michigan with two felonies: transportation of an explosive and possession of an unregistered explosive.
Turkey formally opens another former Byzantine-era church as a mosque
By Associated Press — May 7, 2024
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Haghia Sophia into a Muslim house of prayer.
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