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Syrian children walk along a dirt path at the edge of al-Karama camp, built from scratch with light-brick structures covered with fabric and housing internally displaced Syrians near the village of Atmeh, Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Cash-strapped Syrians living in tent settlements struggle to return home after Assad's fall

8:36 AM on Tuesday, May 26

Sobhieh al-Saleh still lives in a tent in the Syrian province of Idlib despite hopes of returning home after a rebel offensive ousted Bashar Assad in late 2024

FILE - Cities Church is seen on Jan. 19, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)

After a Minnesota church protest, states are toughening penalties for disrupting services

11:57 PM on Monday, May 25

At least four states have adopted laws this year making it a crime to disrupt worship services, a reaction to a high-profile protest inside a Minnesota church that prompted outrage from faith leaders

Relatives mourn around the body of 6-year-old Palestinian girl Menna Allah Abu Labda, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, during her funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A Palestinian woman and a young girl were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, officials say

2:43 PM on Monday, May 25

Palestinian hospital officials say a Palestinian woman and a young girl have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza

The sacred cloth at the center of the Hajj pilgrimage

8:30 AM on Monday, May 25

Pope Leo XIV, left, greets Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah during the presentation of the Pope's first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," at the Vatican, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

5:31 AM on Monday, May 25

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit

Pope Leo XIV speaks during the presentation of his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence," at the Vatican, Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery

5:31 AM on Monday, May 25

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery

A Muslim pilgrim prays in front of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site in the holy city of Mecca during the annual hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Muslims begin the annual Hajj in sweltering heat against a backdrop of war concerns

12:03 AM on Monday, May 25

The annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, has begun

A woman crosses a street in front of a painting of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and paramilitary Basij forces in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump says not to rush as details emerge of a potential Iran deal

6:34 AM on Sunday, May 24

Regional officials say the United States is close to a deal with Iran to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz

FILE - Vatican investigators Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, right, from Spain, and Archbishop Charles Scicluna, from Malta, walk outside of the Nunciatura Apostolica during a break from meeting with people who alleged abuse by the Catholic lay group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae in Lima, Peru, on July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru's Catholic Church holds a symbolic ceremony in apology for Indigenous land dispossession

5:34 PM on Saturday, May 23

The highest Catholic authorities in Peru have held a symbolic reparation ceremony for an Indigenous community affected by land dispossession

In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, President Masoud Pezeshkian, right, speaks with Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Trump says a deal with Iran and opening of Strait of Hormuz are 'largely negotiated'

10:40 AM on Saturday, May 23

President Donald Trump says a deal with Iran, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated.”

Faisal Rashid, left, practices putting on his ihram robe as he speaks with his wife Samiha Matin as they packfor the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, at their home in Pasadena, Calif, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Fueled by faith, some US Muslims embark on Hajj against a backdrop of regional tensions

7:33 AM on Saturday, May 23

U.S. Muslim pilgrims have been preparing for this year's Hajj against the backdrop of a tenuous ceasefire, tensions and uncertainty in the Iran war

Pope Leo XIV rides on his popemobile during his one-day pastoral visit in Acerra, Italy, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)

Pope Leo meets families of youth lost to illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy's 'Land of Fires'

2:46 AM on Saturday, May 23

Pope Leo XIV has visited families near Naples affected by illegal toxic dumping linked to the mafia

Candles with victims names are placed outside the Islamic Center of San Diego in the aftermath of a shooting on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Ty Oneil)

Behavior of teen in mosque shooting led police to seize family guns a year before attack

5:36 PM on Friday, May 22

Court records reveal new details about one of two teenagers who killed three people at a San Diego mosque

FILE - Muslim pilgrims offer prayers on the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

A look at the Hajj pilgrimage and Eid al-Adha and their significance to Muslims around the world

2:25 AM on Friday, May 22

Large numbers of Muslims converge once a year in Saudi Arabia to unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam

FILE - Israeli far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir gestures after election exit poll results are released at his party's headquarters in Jerusalem on Nov. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Oren Ziv, File)

Israeli security minister who taunted flotilla activists has a record of extreme actions

1:07 PM on Thursday, May 21

Israel's far-right national security minister has sparked global outrage after promoting a video of himself taunting activists from a flotilla to Gaza who were detained by his police force

A man with a ghost painting takes part in a ceremony to invoke rain amid the rice planting season in Pring Ka-ek village, northwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian villagers honor guardian spirits to pray for rain and good fortune

2:20 AM on Thursday, May 21

Hundreds of Cambodian villagers have honored their guardian spirits with a colorful ceremony to pray for good fortune, rain and prosperity

Two people pray during a vigil, the day after a shooting, outside of the Islamic Center of San Diego, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The teens who attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego were latest to cite prior atrocities

12:14 AM on Thursday, May 21

An attack at a California Islamic center is the latest violence where the perpetrators said they were inspired by past atrocities, such as the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand

Giovanni Galizia poses with the 'Calendario Romano' calendar that has for two decades been a bestseller in Rome’s souvenir shops, at his home in Verona, Italy, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Holy deception: Rome's 'sexy priest' calendar star never set foot in a seminary

1:47 PM on Wednesday, May 20

A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades

Netanyahu's coalition alliances with religious parties put his reelection at risk

10:13 AM on Wednesday, May 20

For most of the past 17 years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained in power due in part to a tight alliance with ultra-Orthodox religious parties

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