NEW DELHI (AP) 鈥� Police in southern India detained a man for suspected involvement in setting off explosives at a Jehovah's Witness gathering in southern India that killed at least three people and wounded 50 others, authorities said Monday.Hundreds of faithful were at a prayer session Sunday ...
EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) 鈥� The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska's biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and jewel-studded incense burners. But outside the hand-hewn log sanctuary, dozens ...
PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AP) 鈥� For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives.Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil spirits. Some ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) 鈥� Pope Francis鈥� big gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople said Saturday it was 鈥渦rgent鈥� to guarantee <a href="https://apnews.com/article/catholic-church-vatican-women-synod-pope-23a8114eea28c94622d4143f029987d1">fuller participation of ...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) 鈥� It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags. And not now, as Israeli airstrikes crashed around him for the third week, ...
For many of the university chaplains and faith leaders caring for students angered and shaken by the Israel-Hamas war, the needs are acute, the days intense. The bloodshed has <a ...
