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A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
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North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
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A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
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Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
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Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
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AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
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A congressionally backed panel said Friday that religious freedoms were deteriorating in Russia, Turkey and four other nations that were added to a watch list of...
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Malaysia announced Thursday it will bar the religious conversion of children without both parents’ consent in a major step to ease interfaith conflicts that have...
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Leaders of women’s religious communities in the United States say the Vatican has launched a doctrinal investigation into their activities and initiatives.
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The Vatican has begun a first-ever comprehensive study of women’s religious orders in the United States, four decades into a steep decline in the number of Roman...
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A federal judge says South Carolina must stop marketing and making license plates that feature the image of a cross and the words “I Believe.”
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The Supreme Court warily confronted a case Wednesday that mixes limits on free speech with issues of church-state separation.
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A religious group’s fight to place a monument in a public park is at the center of a Supreme Court dispute over governments’ power to limit speech.
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Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day’s losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United...
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Indian church leaders said Tuesday that Christians killed in recent clashes were “sacrificial lambs” targeted by hard-line Hindus seeking an advantage in...
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Clashes between Hindus and Muslims in a western Indian town left at least four people dead and 80 injured, forcing police to impose a curfew, an official said Monday.
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Maoist rebels say they murdered a hard-line Hindu leader whose death triggered violence between Hindus and Christians that left dozens dead, a television news channel...
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The European Union says it is “very worried” about what it sees as a deterioration of religious freedom in Iran.
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A Cambodian boy and his mother walk as the boy holds a monk cloth for his being ordain at Wat Sorya Pormeas pagoda, Moukkampoul district, Kandal province, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, April 25, 2009.
