October 13, 2016 Reports: Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo dies at 90 Italian news agency ANSA says playwright Dario Fo, whose energetic mocking of Italian political life, social mores and religion won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died.
October 13, 2016 Pope urges Lutherans to set aside doctrine to work together Pope Francis is urging Lutherans to set aside doctrinal differences and work with Catholics to care for the poor, the sick and refugees as he lays out his vision for greater communion ahead of his visit to Sweden later this month.
October 13, 2016 Pope to canonize 'gaucho priest,' earlier version of himself Pope Francis this weekend will canonize Argentina's "gaucho priest," the poncho-wearing, mate-sipping pastor who rode his mule Malacara to the far-flung peripheries of Argentina to minister to the poor.
October 13, 2016 Iran breaks up Islamic State bombing plot targeting Ashoura Iran says it has broken up an Islamic State plot to bomb commemorations marking the Shiite religious mourning period of Ashoura.
October 13, 2016 Rebel advances in central Syria set back by infighting For more than a month, insurgents fighting President Bashar Assad's forces had been on the march in central Syria, getting within few miles of the fourth-largest city of Hama.
October 12, 2016 German intel chief: 1st tip on bomb plot in early September The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency says authorities received a first tip in early September that the Islamic State group planned attacks on stations or airports in the country, and last week tracked down the bomb plot suspect who was arrested Monday.
October 12, 2016 Muslim Shiites mark their most important religious ceremony Hundreds of men, boys, and several women, are commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of Prophet's Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in a Shiite tradition in Lebanon's south by lashing their foreheads and backs in a blood-soaked, open air parade.
October 12, 2016 Priest is among casualties in South African student protests Video and photographs show a Catholic priest, his white robe streaked with blood, after he was hit in the face by a rubber bullet at the gates of a church during fighting between South African police and student protesters this week.
