Associated Press Damascus, Syria – Former President Carter met Friday with the exiled leader of Hamas and the militant group’s deputy chief, men the U.S. government has labeled as global terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding suicide bombings and kidnappings. Carter’s meeting with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal followed two other meetings between the former American…

Associated Press United Nations – Pope Benedict XVI told diplomats at the United Nations on Friday that respect for human rights was the key to solving many of the world’s problems, while cautioning that international cooperation was threatened by “the decisions of a small number.” The pontiff, addressing the U.N. General Assembly on his first…

By Daniel Burke and Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service Washington – Pope Benedict XVI urged his American flock on Thursday (April 17) to foster unity within the Roman Catholic Church, and called on listeners to reach out to the victims of the clergy sexual abuse scandal. “No words of mine could describe the pain…

Associated Press San Angelo, Texas – A court hearing to decide the fates of hundreds of children seized from a polygamist retreat ground to a halt almost as soon as it began Thursday as hundreds of lawyers demanded to study the first piece of evidence before it could be introduced. State District Judge Barbara Walther…

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