In Tehran's Martyrs' Museum, Iran courts new believers
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Tales of heroism and artifacts of war are amassed across the street from the old US Embassy.
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When the call to prayer rings out, Muslim faithful converge on the blue-tiled Qaraman-e-Karbala Mosque in the Afghan capital. At the gates, they are politely stopped and those with bags are searched.
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Thousands of people have gathered in Bam to remember some 30,000 victims of the earthquake that flattened the historic Iranian city a year ago.
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The scene at Kathmandu&#39;s Jama Masjid that would wear a festive look and throng with the faithful during Friday prayers has changed.
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Iran's new nuclear negotiator headed to Rome on Tuesday to meet Western diplomats who will try to gauge whether Tehran has hardened its stance on its atomic program.
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About 50 hard-line Iranians on Thursday placed a gravestone at a Tehran cemetery to commemorate the deaths of two Palestinians who carried out twin suicide bombings that killed 16 Israelis this week, witnesses said.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Foreign Ministry yesterday convened a conference on the Holocaust that it boasted would provide a spirit of scientific inquiry and an airing of diverse views, but appeared to be attended primarily by Holocaust deniers and skeptics from around the world.
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The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship
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CAMBRIDGE -- The young Iranians arrived in Cambridge in the summer of 1975, part of a historic venture between their government and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to train the first generation of Iranian nuclear scientists. The program began as a symbol of friendship but quickly became a lesson in unintended consequences.
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As Catholicism copes with a priest shortage, new seminarians in Queens explore the first steps toward the priesthood.
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Some scholars are questioning a Shiite governmentÂs interest in pre-Islamic history.
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A rapidly growing youth movement in Romania is changing lives and preparing a new generation of young people to spread the Gospel.
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Iran celebrated the 29th anniversary of its Islamic revolution as the government appeared to be taking steps to bury the chances of Parliamentary reform.
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Israel's central Holocaust memorial  said on Tuesday over 2,000 people in Iran and thousands of  other people, including Iranians, had visited its new Farsi Web  site documenting the mass murder of 6 million Jews.
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Iran on Monday opened a two-day conference exploring the validity of the Nazi Holocaust, a move that has sparked outrage among Jewish groups.
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Iran's new nuclear negotiator steps onto the international stage for the first time on Tuesday at a meeting where Western diplomats will try to gauge whether Tehran has hardened its stance on its atomic program.
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Defying recent requests from the UN nuclear watchdog agency, the Iranian government said Tuesday it had begun a new round of nuclear experiments, intensifying concerns of UN weapons