Religion
Dubai sets sights on Quran-themed park
Dubai has added a new item to its top ambitions such as building the world's largest Ferris wheel and bidding for an Angry Birds theme park — a site honoring the Quran. The estimated $7.3 million project will include a garden with plants mentioned in the Islamic holy book and ...
Conservatives conference highlights murky tax laws
It was called the "Road to Majority" conference, a not-so-subtle reference to winning control of Capitol Hill in the 2014 midterm elections. Some of the biggest names in the Republican Party — several potential presidential candidates among them — offered plans to strengthen the GOP. Breakout sessions included tips on ...
Children taken from Canadian Mennonite community
Children have been removed from an orthodox Mennonite community in Canada where adults have been charged with assaulting youngsters using items such as cattle prods and leather straps. Manitoba Family Services would not say Wednesday how many children had been taken into its care and would not reveal any other ...
Floods strand pilgrims in India, deaths could rise
Monsoon flooding that has stranded thousands of people and caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister said the toll could rise substantially. The torrential rain and landslides since Sunday have stranded pilgrims at four revered Hindu shrines, washed away bridges and roads and ...
Former priest's sex abuse trial set for Aug. 27
A West Texas judge has set ground rules in a sex abuse case against a former Roman Catholic priest who served 11 years in Texas -- despite a child molestation conviction in California. The judge Wednesday told attorneys for both sides how proceedings will go in John Anthony Salazar's case. ...
Fort Wayne priest removed after sex abuse charge
A Catholic priest who took over a Fort Wayne parish after its pastor was accused of sexually abusing a minor has been removed from public ministry himself for allegedly abusing a minor in Africa some 20 years ago. Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhodes took the action June 10 against ...
New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. More than 60 cases of what is now called MERS, including 38 deaths, have been recorded by the ...
Recent editorials from Texas newspapers
Houston Chronicle. June 19, 2013. FEMA needs to reconsider: The people of West need and deserve all the FEMA help they can get. "You are not forgotten. We may not all live here in Texas but we're neighbors too. We're Americans too," President Obama told the people of West nearly ...
Egypt top cleric: Protests against Morsi permitted
Egypt's top Muslim cleric declared Wednesday that peaceful protests against the president are permitted, in a snub to hard-line Islamist backers of Mohammed Morsi who declared that those behind opposition protests planned for June 30 are heretics. In a statement, Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar mosque, ...
Accused priest too sick for trial, lawyer says
An attorney says a terminally ill Catholic priest is so sick and incapacitated his upcoming trial on sodomy charges would be a "mockery." The Rev. James Schook is scheduled for trial Monday in Louisville on seven counts, but prosecutors acknowledged that it would likely be postponed. He is accused of ...
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