Illegal migrants in Israel pray for better times
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Holding up a Bible in a makeshift church in Tel Aviv, an African pastor asks God to shield his flock of migrant workers from Israeli arrest.
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Each workday, hundreds of Palestinians brace for the petty humiliations they must bear in order to make a living in Israel
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Mohammed, an illegal Iraqi refugee, counts himself lucky. He has managed to find a carpentry job in Lebanon. And even better, his workplace is near his home Â meaning he doesn't have to drive to work and risk arrest at one of Beirut's security checkpoints.
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Across the Middle East, many people are forced to put off marriage, the gateway to independence. In their frustration they turn to religion for solace.
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Illegal immigrants lined up outside government offices and consulates, seeking documents to help them qualify for residency and work papers as Spain's biggest immigration reform ever went into effect.
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The Vatican on Tuesday issued a new version of a Roman Catholic prayer that had long offended Jews, but some said the changes don't go far enough.
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Christians in the West Bank say insecurity rather than religious persecution is to blame for their communityâs vulnerability.
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The last two years have been the gloomiest in the history of labor relations in the Israeli economy. The Histadrut, representing about a third of the wage earners in the country, was struck by a series of
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TABA, Egypt -- Israeli tourists flock to this idyllic stretch of coastline between Taba, on the Egyptian-Israeli border, and Dahab to the south.
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Israel's attorney general urged the government Thursday to swiftly reroute its barrier in the occupied West Bank to minimize the risk of international sanctions after the World Court deemed the project illegal.
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An outburst of anti-Semitic violence has sent shock waves through Israel, but its roots lie in the influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union
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People from around the world place their prayers in Jerusalem's Western Wall or mail them to "God, Jerusalem". It's Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz who clears them up.
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Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published Tuesday.
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As a Palestinian whose father was a refugee in Lebanon from 1948 and whose family continues to live under Israeli military occupation, many around the world expect me and other
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Thousands of Ethiopian Jews who left their native villages to relocate to Israel have been camping for months or even years in the capital, waiting in vain to get to the Promised land.
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KOCHI, India -- Down a narrow, stone-paved road in a quarter known here as "Jew Town," a woman with salt-and-pepper hair was sewing glittery beads onto the rim of a Jewish prayer cap. It was just after 3 p.m., and Sarah Cohen, wearing a housedress and flip-flops, sat in the sunny doorway of her...
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An underground movement of gay  Orthodox Jews in Israel has created a website to help  homosexuals cope with living in a strict, religious community  that is often hostile to their lifestyle.