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Majority of US adults support religious chaplains in public schools, a new AP-NORC poll shows
Few U.S. adults support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools, but a majority favors ...
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...
US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has ‘ignored the science’
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?
St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female ...
The families of hostages held in Gaza hope for their own ceasefire after truce in Israel-Iran war
Liran Berman hasn’t had much to keep hopeful over the 629 days of his twin brothers’ captivity in Gaza. Ceasefire deals have ...
Cambodia ex-leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister make separate visits to tense border areas
Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, on Thursday made separate ...
Myanmar burns confiscated drugs worth around $300 million
Nearly $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed in Myanmar’s major cities on Thursday to mark the ...
Vietnam ends death penalty for 8 crimes, may spare real estate tycoon
Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...
Asian shares are mixed as markets take a breather after recent volatility
Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday after U.S. stocks hung near their all-time high as financial markets caught their ...
An explosion and ensuing stampede kill 29 children in a Central African Republic school
An explosion and the stampede that followed killed at least 29 schoolchildren and injured more than 250 at a high school in Central African Republic’s ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei makes first public statement after end of Israel-Iran war
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made his first public statement Thursday after the end of the Israel-Iran war. Khamenei took shelter in a secret location ...
Investigators begin analyzing data from black boxes of Air India flight that crashed
Investigators have begun analyzing data extracted from the black boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed about two weeks ago, killing at least 270 ...