NEW YORK — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, an icon of New York City’s holiday season, lights up Wednesday night in a festive ceremony in midtown Manhattan. This…
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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia said Monday it sent 26 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor to the United States after determining that the rights of some…
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Pope prays at site of 2020 Beirut port explosion and calls for justice on last day of Lebanon trip
BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and…
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The Latest: Pope Leo ends first foreign trip with silent prayer at Beirut blast site, Mass at port
Pope Leo XIV will offer a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wraps up his first foreign trip to Turkey and…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — A man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism, an Australian magistrate said…
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A former Scientologist has exclusively opened up to the Daily Star about what he claims to have been a ‘psychologically abusive’ experience being a volunteer worker for the…
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday declared one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization” under a proclamation…
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli settlers on Monday rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, torching homes and cars in the latest in a string…
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KARACHI, Pakistan — Thick black smoke clawed at the sky last week over the industrial zone in Pakistan’s largest city as firefighter Syeda Masooma Zaidi raced toward the…
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New Mormon apostle led a global temple building boom and has deep knowledge of church finances
SALT LAKE CITY — Gérald Caussé, a high-ranking official in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who oversaw a global temple building boom under its previous…