Vatican says embezzlement loss is $62 million

Billy Graham, mourned as a man of God, is laid to rest near his childhood home
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Muslim officer works with immigrants in Ohio capital city
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Women forced to remove hijabs for mug shots settle with New York City
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Mormonism’s top moneyman credits members’ sacrifices and sacred financial principles for faith’s prosperity
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Mississippi Sikh community demands answers about deadly shooting of gas station owner
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Vatican indicts ex-bank head, says embezzlement loss is $62 million
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Guatemala envoy tours Jerusalem for embassy site, Palestinians fume
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Polish group sues Argentine paper under new Holocaust law
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Hindu woman elected to Pakistan’s senate in historic first
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Brazen Burkina Faso attacks raise concern of growing threat
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Buddhist group admits sexual abuse by teachers
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Cardinal George Pell appears in court over ‘historical’ sexual abuse
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‘We will not stop’: Irish abortion activist vows to step up fight
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Greek protesters attack new religious instruction textbooks
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Too old to be executed? Supreme Court considers an aging death row
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A rabbi, an imam and a pastor walk onto a stage...
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Why are we surprised when Buddhists are violent?
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The biblical story the Christian right uses to defend Trump
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How the Oscar-winning ‘Coco’ and its fantastical afterlife forced us to talk about death
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