Religion
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UAE legal reform sees tougher penalties for family killings of women
The UAE’s government said it would repeal a law that allowed judges to issue lenient sentences for such killings. BBC…
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France considers envoy to explain Macron’s ideas to Muslim states
France is looking at appointing a special envoy to explain Emmanuel Macron’s thinking on secularism and freedom of expression in…
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One dead, several injured in suspected terrorist attack in Vienna
Police said offenders armed with rifles had fired shots from six areas near the Seitenstettengasse synagogue about 8:00pm Monday local…
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France vows to put more police on the streets as the country reels from Nice church attack
The French government on Friday vowed to send thousands more police onto the streets to ensure security as investigators sought…
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Three dead in Nice after knife attack at Notre Dame church, France raises security alert to highest level
A defiant President Emmanuel Macron, declaring that France had been subject to an Islamist terrorist attack, said he would deploy…
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Vatican rebuts US protests over China deal
ROME — The Vatican has renewed a controversial agreement with China despite intense opposition from the U.S. government. Hannah Roberts…
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‘Humanity came together’: How this family forgave the killer of their children and united a community
Now, months on from the Oatlands car crash, we hear from those closest to the four young victims, who speak…
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British-born Italian teenager could become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint
A British-born Italian teenager who dedicated his short life to spreading the faith online and helping the poor was beatified…
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France’s Macron vows to fight ‘Islamist separatism’
In a keenly awaited speech, Mr Macron said a minority of France’s estimated six million Muslims were in danger of…
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God, plagues and pestilence – what history can teach us about living through a pandemic
Too young to remember the Spanish flu, we’ve grown up in a world where we take Western wonder drugs and…
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Key Vatican cardinal Angelo Becciu resigns after being caught up in real estate scandal
The powerful head of the Vatican’s saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned from the post and renounced his rights as…
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Iranian artists jailed for defying government restrictions on women singing and dancing
Mr Rajabian creates classical compositions using local Iranian instruments, but his latest project contains something largely forbidden in Iran: the…
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The vertical split in Islamic world is complete
The emergence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aka MbS as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia rapidly changed…
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Turkey’s Long Tradition Of Church Desecration
The world’s once greatest cathedral is now a mosque. Uzay Bulut The American Conservative On July 10, Turkey’s President Recep…
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Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the…
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Tayyip Erdogan joins thousands at Hagia Sophia for Friday prayer
Some were seen holding Turkish and Ottoman flags. Sana Sikander The Siasat Daily ISTANBUL – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan joined…
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