Religion - Page 858

November 16, 2016

Ancient Ten Commandments slab up for auction

Bidding for commandments

November 16, 2016

UN committee flags Iran over human rights

A U.N.

November 16, 2016

The Latest: Iraqi forces assessing damage to Nimrud site

The Latest on the campaign to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local): 3 p.m.

November 16, 2016

Iraq's Yazidi plot rise of rebuilt capital next to city devastated by ISIS

It’s been one year since ISIS was driven from the Iraqi city of Sinjar, but the Yazidi who called it their capital do not plan to rebuild, at least not in the same location.

November 16, 2016

How Trump won Evangelicals by a record 81 percent

Why Trump won the Evangelical vote

November 16, 2016

South Korea prosecutors question former vice sports minister

South Korean prosecutors are questioning a former vice sports minister over an explosive political scandal that's threatening Park Geun-hye's presidency and could spill over to preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

November 16, 2016

Prosecutors summing up case in Wilders hate speech trial

Dutch prosecutors have begun summing up their case against populist anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders in his hate-speech trial that pits freedom of expression against the Netherlands' anti-discrimination laws.

November 16, 2016

India's currency swap sets off endless lines of frustration

The first people showed up at the bank long before dawn, forming a line in the cold and the smog and silently waiting for the chance to withdraw their own money.

November 16, 2016

Egypt court strikes down ousted president's death sentence

An Egyptian court has struck down a death sentence passed by a lower tribunal against an ousted Islamist president for his part in a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising.

November 16, 2016

Indonesia police name Jakarta governor as blasphemy suspect

Indonesian police on Wednesday named the minority Christian governor of the country's capital as a suspect in a blasphemy investigation in a major test of the Muslim-majority nation's reputation for religious toleration.