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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Dozens of faithful Orthodox Christians held up wooden crosses and sang Church hymns outside Cyprus’s state broadcaster on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of the country’s controversial participation …

DHARMSALA, India (AP) – The Dalai Lama, the 85-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader, received the first injection of the coronavirus vaccine on Saturday at a hospital in the northern Indian mountain city of …

Nasiriyah, Iraq – It’s where the wheel was invented, the Code of Hammurabi, or rule of law, was first established, and where oil was first burned as an energy source. It is …

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) – Pope Francis met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the leading clerics of Shiite Islam, on Saturday in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, to ​​convey a …

BAGHDAD (AP) – Pope Francis opened the first papal visit to Iraq on Friday with a call for the country to protect its centuries-old diversity, urging Muslims to accept their Christian neighbors …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah on Thursday, the latest in a series of cross-border missile …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A Polish court on Tuesday acquitted three activists accused of desecrating and offending religious sentiments for producing and distributing images of a revered Roman Catholic icon altered to …

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) – A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to a Christian convicted in 2018 as a teenager for insulting Islam by posting a photo of Islam’s holiest site on …

Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church unveiled plans Monday to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that does not recognize same-sex marriage. The move could accelerate …

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – Israel’s Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the country’s powerful Orthodox establishment on Monday, ruling that people who convert to Judaism through reform and conservative movements …