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This photo provided by Capital Entertainment, Grammy Award Nominated Gospel Singer Richard Smallwood is handed a portrait of himself during his 75th Birthday Celebration. (Capital Entertainment via AP)

Gospel singer Richard Smallwood dies at 77, leaving a legacy that inspired many in music

12:09 PM on Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Eight-time Grammy-nominated gospel singer Richard Smallwood has died at 77

Candy Cane Lane at Christmas on L. Ron Hubbard Way

12:00 PM on Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Buddhist monks on a "Walk for Peace" walk on Veterans Parkway in Fayetteville, Ga., on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, from Texas to Washington, D.C. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Buddhist monks persist in peace walk despite injuries as thousands follow them on social media

1:27 PM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their peace walk across much of the U.S. even after two participants were injured when a truck hit their escort vehicle

List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending

10:17 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Israel says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in Gaza

Palestinians pass along a street surrounded by buildings destroyed during Israeli air and ground operations in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026

8:36 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza

FILE - Parishioners of Notre Dame d'Haiti process outside the Catholic church during a Lent faith event that reenacted the biblical story of the Red Sea passage March 29, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto, File)

US faith leaders supporting targeted immigrants brace for a tough year ahead

7:14 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Faith leaders across the United States face challenges as they support anxious immigrants

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett speaks about the Bondi terror attack investigation as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, listens, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, in Canberra, Australia. (Hilary Wardhaugh/AAP Image via AP)

Australian police find no evidence of 'broader terrorist cell' in Bondi Beach antisemitic shooting

10:33 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Police say an investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of killing 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence they were part of a “broader terrorist cell.”

Shamans hold photos of U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their annual ritual to predict political and social issues for the new year in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peruvian shamans predict Maduro's fall, continued global conflicts in 2026

3:12 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered in front of the sea in the Miraflores district of Peru’s capital city to carry out an annual ritual in which they make predictions for the upcoming year

Betty Cole leads an interfaith meditation practice at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/William Liang)

Ancient meditation practices find new life in modern religious communities across America

7:20 AM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Meditation has been a common feature for eons in religious traditions from Buddhism to yoga, which originated as an ancient spiritual practice in India rooted in Hindu philosophy

Street artist Jarrod Grech poses for a photo next to his painting of Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Syrian-Australian shopkeeper who disarmed one of the attackers of Sydney's Bondi Beach shooting, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. (Rod McGuirk/AP Photo)

Families of Bondi Beach victims demand more federal action on antisemitism and security failures

12:26 AM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Families of victims of the recent Sydney massacre are urging more federal action to investigate rising antisemitism and security failures

Palestinians try to recover their tent after overnight rainfall flooded their beachside tent camp in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)

Winter rain floods Gaza camps as Netanyahu heads for US meeting

9:17 AM on Sunday, December 28, 2025

Winter rain has lashed the Gaza Strip and flooded camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by war try to stay dry in fraying tents

A police officer injured by a thrown stone is helped away from the area after clashes erupted between Alawite protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterprotesters, two days after a bomb in an Alawite mosque in Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 during Friday prayers, in Latakia, Syria's coastal region, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

4 dead, dozens injured in Syria during clashes between Alawites and counterdemonstrators

6:59 AM on Sunday, December 28, 2025

At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Syria’s coast

Shaimaa Wadi, 25, sits with her 1-year-old daughter Tala, inside their tent in a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Chilly Gaza braces for more winter rain and word of any progress in ceasefire talks

1:25 PM on Saturday, December 27, 2025

Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain

FILE - Hoda Abrahim, founder and CEO of, "Love, Inshallah," a matchmaker featured on the series, "Muslim Matchmaker," on Hulu, appears in her home on Aug. 11, 2025, in Conroe, Texas. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

How TV shows like 'Mo' and 'Muslim Matchmaker' allow Arab and Muslim Americans to tell their stories

8:14 AM on Saturday, December 27, 2025

Comedian Mo Amer is gaining attention for his show “Mo,” which explores the journey of a Palestinian refugee family seeking asylum in the U.S. The series is part of a wave of TV shows by Arab or Muslim American creators that aim to tell authentic stories without relying on stereotypes

A man holds an imaginary depiction of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad who is revered by Syria's Alawite community, during the funeral of victims of an attack a day earlier at the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the predominantly Alawite Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood of Homs, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Hundreds mourn in Syria's Homs after deadly mosque bombing

5:00 AM on Saturday, December 27, 2025

Hundreds of mourners have gathered outside a mosque in Homs, Syria, after a bombing killed eight people and wounded 18

People visit the site of a U.S. airstrike in Northwest, Jabo, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/ Tunde Omolehin)

Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

10:22 AM on Friday, December 26, 2025

A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit

In this photo released by Israel Police on Friday, Dec. 26, 2025, Israeli police officers work on the site where a vehicle was used, according to the authorities, during a suspected ramming and stabbing attack in Afula, northern Israel. (Israel Police via AP)

A Palestinian man kills 2 in car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel and injures 2 others

7:34 AM on Friday, December 26, 2025

Police say that two people have been killed and at least two more injured in northern Israel in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man

Syrian security forces inspect the damage after an explosion in the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of the Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood in Homs, Syria Friday, Dec. 26, 2025.(AP Photo)

Mosque bombing in Syria leaves 8 dead and 18 wounded

6:56 AM on Friday, December 26, 2025

A bombing at a mosque in Homs, Syria, during Friday prayers has killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others

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