Religious strife
FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, file photo, Indonesian Islamic cleric and the leader of Islamic Defenders Front Rizieq Shihab, center, gestures to his followers as he arrives from Saudi Arabia in Jakarta, Indonesia. Shihab was sentenced to another four years in prison on Thursday, June 24, 2021, for concealing information about his coronavirus test result. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)
Indonesian cleric gets 4 years for concealing COVID-19 test

By Niniek Karmini And Dita Alangkara Jun. 24, 2021 01:45 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press Jun. 09, 2021 01:26 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 8 The Montreal Gazette on anti-Muslim hatred in...

Khalida Ashram and her daughter Anila mourn at the scene of an attack on Monday, involving a driver accused of plowing a pickup truck into an immigrant family of five in London, Ontario, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denounced the attack as police say the attack targeted Muslims. (Geoff Robins/The Canadian Press via AP)
Trudeau denounces truck attack that targeted Muslim family

By Rob Gillies Jun. 08, 2021 02:56 PM EDT

A woman carries a cross during a pilgrimage to pray that the Pacaya volcano decreases its activity in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The volcano, just south of the capital, has been active since early February. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
AP PHOTOS: Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, amid a month of conflict

Jun. 01, 2021 09:06 AM EDT

Motorists react as police officers and soldiers disperse a group of people who allegedly plan to stage a rally to support firebrand cleric Rizieq Shihab near the East Jakarta District Court where his sentencing hearing is held in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May 27, 2021. Judges are scheduled to deliver their verdict on the trial of Shihab, the leader of now-banned Islam Defenders Front, who was accused of inciting people to breach pandemic restrictions by holding events attended by thousands of supporters to commemorate Prophet Muhammad's birthday and the wedding of his daughter in November last year. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Indonesia court sentences firebrand cleric to 8 months' jail

By Niniek Karmini And Andi Jatmiko May. 27, 2021 07:52 AM EDT

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, left, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaks in front of civic and faith leaders, including Mayor Eric Garcetti, back center, outside City Hall, Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Los Angeles. Faith and community leaders in Los Angeles called for peace, tolerance and unity in the wake of violence in the city that is being investigated as potential hate crimes. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Police say antisemitic attacks in Los Angeles may be related

May. 20, 2021 08:35 PM EDT

An Israeli soldier stands guard next to an Iron Dome air defense system as smoke rises from an oil tank on fire after it was hit by a rocket fire from Gaza Strip, near the town of Ashkelon, Israel,, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
The Latest: Netanyahu raps 'anarchy' of Jewish-Arab fighting

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 06:40 AM EDT

An altar boy carries a cross as Noel Henri Zongo, priest at the Church of the Sangoulé Lamizana military camp in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, celebrates Mass on Sunday, April 11, 2021. Just seven chaplains, hailing from Protestant, Catholic and Muslim faiths, are charged with spiritually advising some 11,000 soldiers and helping maintain their morale. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)
Burkina Faso's army chaplains tested by extremist conflict

By Sam Mednick May. 08, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Rabbi Shai Cherry poses for a photograph at Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pa., Monday, April 26, 2021. Antisemites adopted a new tactic for spewing their hate when the COVID-19 pandemic closed synagogues and Jewish schools and community centers: Hijacking video conferences. On the morning of June 27, 2020, Rabbi Shai Cherry was leading a Shabbat service on Zoom for his congregation in a Philadelphia suburb when several guests with suspicious usernames began posting pornographic images and antisemitic messages like "Hitler should have finished the job." One of them posted Cherry's home address. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Report: Pandemic gives rise to antisemitic 'Zoom bombing'

By Michael Kunzelman Apr. 27, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 7, 2021 file photo, Nationalists and Loyalists clash with one another at the peace wall on Lanark Way in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. The chaotic scenes during a week of violence on the streets of Northern Ireland have stirred memories of decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict, known as “The Troubles.” A 1998 peace deal ended large-scale violence but did not resolve Northern Ireland’s deep-rooted tensions. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)
EXPLAINER: What is behind the latest unrest in N Ireland?

By Jill Lawless Apr. 10, 2021 02:43 AM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2019 file photo, Strasbourg chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill looks at vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France. Coronavirus lockdowns in 2020 shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in an annual report Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)
Report: Pandemic amped up anti-Semitism, forced it online

By Laurie Kellman Apr. 07, 2021 04:02 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 17, 2021, file photo, Roula AbiSamra, center, and Chelsey, right, prepare to lay flowers bouquets at a makeshift memorial outside of the Gold Spa in Atlanta. While the U.S. has seen mass killings in recent years where police said gunmen had racist or misogynist motivations, advocates and scholars say the shootings this week at three Atlanta-area massage parlors targeted a group of people marginalized in more ways than one, in a crime that stitches together stigmas about race, gender, migrant work and sex work. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Georgia church disowns suspect, says he betrayed faith

By Luis Andres Henao, Gary Fields And Jessie Wardarski Mar. 19, 2021 05:44 PM EDT

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at a National Remembrance Service, Saturday, March 13, 2021, in Christchurch, New Zealand. The service marks the second anniversary of a shooting massacre in which 51 worshippers were killed at two Christchurch mosques by a white supremacist. (Mark Tantrum/Department of Internal Affairs via AP)
New Zealand marks 2 years since Christchurch mosque killings

By Nick Perry Mar. 12, 2021 11:32 PM EST

Pope Francis, center, leads a mass at Mar Youssef Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021. Pope Francis and Iraq's top Shiite cleric delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq's long-beleaguered Christian minority during an historic meeting in the holy city of Najaf. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
Pope, top Iraq Shiite cleric deliver message of coexistence

By Nicole Winfield And Qassim Abdul-Zahra Mar. 06, 2021 02:21 AM EST

Pope Francis meets authorities and civil society at Baghdad's Presidential Palace, Iraq, Friday, March 5, 2021. Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq to urge the country's dwindling number of Christians to stay put and help rebuild the country after years of war and persecution, brushing aside the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
The Latest: Pope honors massacre victims at Baghdad church

Mar. 05, 2021 06:07 AM EST

Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir sits inside a van as he leaves upon his release from Gunung Sindur Prison in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. The convicted firebrand cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists walked free from prison Friday after completing his sentence for funding the training of Islamic militants. (AP Photo/Aditya Irawan)
Indonesian cleric who inspired Bali bombings freed from jail

By Niniek Karmini Jan. 07, 2021 07:24 PM EST

FILE In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, Father Sergiy, a Russian monk who has defied the Russian Orthodox Church's leadership speaks to journalists in Russian Ural's Sredneuralsk, Russia. Father Sergiy, who has castigated the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church leadership and denied the coronavirus existence, was detained Tuesday Dec. 29, 2020, by police at a monastery in the Urals and flown to Moscow where he will face criminal charges. (AP Photo/Vladimir Podoksyonov, File)
Russian monk charged with inciting suicidal acts in sermons

By Vladimir Isachenkov Dec. 29, 2020 09:18 AM EST

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2015 file photo, Carlos Telleldin attends a trial where he and others are accused of derailing an investigation into the 1994 bombing of the Argentina Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A court on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, has cleared Telleldin, the only Argentine still facing charges in the bombing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
Argentine man cleared in deadly bombing at Jewish center

By Almudena Calatrava Dec. 23, 2020 04:26 PM EST

Rohingya refugees board a ship as they are ferried to Bhashan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, from Chittagong, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Authorities in Bangladesh have begun relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. (AP Photo/Saleh Noman)
First Rohingya refugees arrive at isolated Bangladesh island

By Julhas Alam Dec. 04, 2020 05:11 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Dec. 02, 2020 06:36 PM EST
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 1 The Wall Street Journal...