MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) 鈥� As hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims walked in the footsteps of the prophets beneath a sweltering sun, contracted cleaners in lime-green jumpsuits held out matching plastic bags to collect their empty water bottles.It takes tens of thousands of cleaners, ...
TOWSON, Md. (AP) 鈥� A Maryland judge acquitted a former Catholic high school wrestling coach Friday in a sex abuse case.Neil Adleberg, 75, of Reisterstown, had been charged with second-degree rape, second-degree attempted rape, sex abuse of a minor and sexual solicitation of a minor. His was ...
Less than a month after finalizing <a href="https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-saddleback-vote-women-pastors-new-orleans-7ee6606b57d0bf0c4c7ed91316af12b1">the ouster of one of its largest churches</a> for having women pastors, the Southern Baptist ...
BASRA, Iraq (AP) 鈥� Thousands of followers of a firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric rallied in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning the burning of a Quran during a protest in Sweden earlier this week. Some of the demonstrators called for expulsion of the Swedish ambassador from Iraq.At the ...
