Iran holds its Black Church as symbol of tolerance
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QARA KELISA, Iran  - The last priest left the Black Church more than half a century ago and now the picture on the wall of a former monk's cell is of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, not Jesus.
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Iran hailed nationwide elections to local councils and a powerful clerical body as a success on Saturday and said healthy voter turnout would help the Islamic Republic confront its Western foes.
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ANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain, AUG. 23, 2004 (Zenit) - Archbishop Fernando Sebastian of Pamplona says that the Catholic Church "is not opposed to the recognition of certain civil rights for certain types of ...
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More than 700 people gathered peacefully Saturday to protest the Iranian president&#039;s denial of the Holocaust as Iran played its second match at the World Cup.
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Far from its roots in disfranchised U.S. ghettos, rap music is proving a big hit as a platform for social criticism in the Islamic Republic.
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The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is causing much bitterness in Tehran and is fuelling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
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QOM, Iran -- These are pilgrims of a different kind. Several times a week, Shi'ite Muslim clerics and community leaders from neighboring Iraq climb stairs to a little office in this Iranian city of shrines and Islamic seminaries. There, an aged and hunched figure sits on a swivel chair fitted with an electric blanket.
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Mourning Iranians have flocked to the southeastern city of Bam in recent days to mark the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake which killed tens of thousands and left the ancient Silk Road city in ruins.
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The veil that cloaks the head of Zafran Mukanwali is a modest symbol of a potentially dramatic shift in religious affiliation in Africa.
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TEHRAN -- Tensions between law enforcement officials and human rights activists ahead of today's annual commemoration of International Women's Day have led to dozens of arrests in the capital. The days around the commemoration have been a perennial rallying point for critics of government policies viewed by rights activists as sexist or discriminatory. This year, the conservative government of President ...
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Three leaders in Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon are united in theology and a common fight against the West.
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Iran officially confirmed Sunday that it is holding an Iranian-American peace activist, the fourth dual citizen the country has detained in recent months.
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Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked Ashoura, commemorating the death in A.
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Iran bought blueprints of a nuclear bomb from the same black-market network that gave Libya such diagrams and continues to enrich uranium despite a commitment to suspend the technology that can be used for atomic weapons, an Iranian opposition group said Wednesday.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - An Iranian refugee claimant who spent almost three years in sanctuary in a Vancouver church before being arrested on the weekend is suddenly a free man.
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The museum aims to insert peace into a culture that glorifies martyrdom.
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TEHRAN, Jan. 18 -- Ali Akbar Assadi entered the dark room in downtown Tehran, only to be blocked by a wall of men. The air was moist from sweat. Darkness engulfed him as he made his way forward.