Religious Conflicts

Purchasing Plan B As a liberal-minded individual who believes in a woman's right to choose, I believe 15-year-old girls should not be purchasing the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill without their parents' knowing. Most 15- through 17-year-old girls are...

TEHRAN -- Iranians took to the streets Friday in the latest protest against the desecration last week by Syrian rebels of an ancient Shiite shrine outside Damascus, the Syrian capital. "We have to show our anger," declared Ebrahim Jalili, 80, a carpet...

On Aug. 5, 2011 Billy and Karen Vaughn lost their son Aaron Vaughn, Navy SEAL Team VI member, in a helicopter crash. The Chinook helicopter was named Extortion 17. Recently Billy visited another crash site commemorating other brave Americans, who gave...

BAGHDAD — Less than a year and a half after the last U.S. troops left, Iraq's political leaders are openly debating the prospect of two dangerous paths for their country: de facto division or civil war. Perhaps both. Tension between the Shiite...

Just weeks after the terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon, the global leader of the world’s 10-million-plus Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has brought his religion’s message of peace, public service and uplift to the faithful of Southern...

Joe Tropea thought he was writing a research paper on the Catonsville Nine, a group of Catholic anti-war activists who set draft records ablaze outside a Selective Service office in 1968. But what he was really working on was a movie script. "I just got...

* Iran denounces reported desecration of Damascus-area shrine * Says attack could trigger wider sectarian conflagration * Radical Sunni rebels targeting "pagan" Shi'ite holy sites * Hezbollah warns of big consequences if Shi'ite mausoleum hit May 8...

* Somalia trying to rebuild after two decades of war * Somali forces battling Qaeda-linked Islamist militants By Mohammed Abbas LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - Somalia's armed forces have not received "a single bullet" despite the partial lifting of a United...

BAGHDAD, April 28 (Reuters) - Iraq has suspended the licences of satellite news network Al Jazeera and nine other channels, accusing them of inciting violence through their coverage of recent sectarian clashes. The Communication and Media Commission...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, May 8 (Reuters) - Leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi paid a high-profile visit to Gaza on Thursday, giving a boost to the Islamist group Hamas that runs the enclave, but also laying bare Palestinian rivalries....

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - The older suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings spoke to his mother about "jihad" in a 2011 phone call secretly recorded by Russian officials, CBS News reported on Saturday. U.S. authorities learned of the wiretapped...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second day in a row, a bomb blast killed and maimed participants at a campaign rally being held by one of Pakistan's Islamist religious parties, indicating a broadening of targets in the violence that has primarily...