MUSLIMS WORRY ABOUT BROADER FRANCE HEADSCARF BAN
By JAMEY KEATEN A vendor sets up his stall on the first day of the 30th Annual Meeting of France’s Muslims, at Le Bourget, Europe’s largest and most popular Muslim…
Religious issues
POPE’S FOOT-WASHING FINAL BLOW FOR TRADITIONALISTS
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis, right, looks up to the Crucifix during the Passion of Christ Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, March 29, 2013. Pope Francis…
AP INTERVIEW: EGYPT SAYS IRANIAN POSE NO RISK
By MARIAM EZZAT Egypt’s minister of tourism, Hesham Zaazoua, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, March 28, 2013. Egypt’s tourism minister…
MYANMAR’S ARMY PATROLS CENTRAL CITY AFTER VIOLENCE
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, armed Myanmar police oficers provide security around a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550…
OBAMA VOWS UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE President Barack Obama is greeted by Israeli President Shimon Perez, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival ceremony at Ben Gurion…
REMADE MIDEAST POSES NEW PERILS FOR OBAMA ON TRIP
By MATTHEW LEE Students of Estella’s school for bakery and pastry making, work on an image depicting U.S. President Barack Obama made out of chocolate in Givat Shmuel, central Israel,…
AB– USE VICTIMS WANT POPE TO OPEN ARGENTINA FILES
By MICHAEL WARREN FILE – In this June 10, 2009 file photo, Argentine Catholic priest Julio Grassi talks to reporters as he leaves a courthouse after being found guilty of…
MD. POISED TO BE 18TH STATE TO BAN DEATH PENALTY
By MICHELLE JANAYE NEALY and BRIAN WITTE FILE – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley attends the National Governors Association 2013 Winter Meeting in Washington, in this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo.…