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Muslim leaders say Minneapolis is now the first major U.S. city to allow broadcasts of all five daily calls to prayer. MINNEAPOLIS — With the stroke of a pen, the more than 20 mosques throughout Minneapolis are now allowed to publicly broadcast the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, five times per day throughout the year. "Just like church bells or the ringing of the shofar, they are all

BALTIMORE -- Lawyers representing some sex abuse victims tied to the Archdiocese of Baltimore are calling on prosecutors to restart criminal investigations against those named in the Maryland Attorney General's recent report. That report, released nearly two weeks ago, named more than 150 accused abusers. They're mostly clergy and church staff. Baltimore attorney Thiru Vignarajah is now

Philstavious “Phil” Dowdell, an honours student on his way to play Division 1 college football, was among the victims of a mass shooting at a party in Alabama on Saturday that left four dead, according to a local pastor. “It was a very sad, sad scene,” Ben Hayes, senior pastor at Dadeville First Baptist Church and team chaplain of Dadeville High School, where Dowdell played multiple sports,

The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the church's clergy sex abuse crisis has been charged in Wisconsin with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man more than 45 years ago, court records show. A criminal complaint filed Friday alleges that Theodore McCarrick, who was removed from the priesthood in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found he had sexually molested adults