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In a country where alcohol is banned, Pakistan’s top brewery is betting on soft drinks

In a country where alcohol is banned, Pakistan’s top brewery is betting on soft drinks

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — A pungent fug of malt and yeastiness hangs over Murree Brewery, Pakistan ’s biggest and oldest producer of alcoholic drinks.
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Dalai Lama, god-king for Tibetan Buddhists, will have a successor. That decision is consequential

Dalai Lama, god-king for Tibetan Buddhists, will have a successor. That decision is consequential

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity.
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The Baha'i faith is small, far-flung, and faced with repression in parts of the Middle East

The Baha'i faith is small, far-flung, and faced with repression in parts of the Middle East

The Baha’i faith — a small but global religion with an interfaith credo — fits comfortably into the religious spectrum of most countries.
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Strikes kill 94 Palestinians in Gaza, including 45 people waiting for aid, authorities say

Strikes kill 94 Palestinians in Gaza, including 45 people waiting for aid, authorities say

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli airstrikes and shootings killed 94 Palestinians in Gaza late Wednesday and Thursday, including 45 who were attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said Thursday.
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Tibetans in exile wonder: Will the next Dalai Lama be as charismatic as this one?

Tibetans in exile wonder: Will the next Dalai Lama be as charismatic as this one?

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate , paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching back 500 years after his death.
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Supreme Court to consider reviving evangelist's lawsuit over restrictions in small Mississippi town

Supreme Court to consider reviving evangelist's lawsuit over restrictions in small Mississippi town

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Thursday it will consider whether to revive a lawsuit from a man barred from evangelizing outside a small-town Mississippi amphitheater after authorities say he shouted insults at people over a loudspeaker.
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Pope speaks about childhood and early mornings as an altar boy in unscripted visit with campers

Pope speaks about childhood and early mornings as an altar boy in unscripted visit with campers

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV spoke publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff Thursday, recalling that from the age of six he used to get up early to serve as an altar boy at the 6:30 a.m. Mass before going to school.
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Danish police examine suspicious package at Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen

Danish police examine suspicious package at Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police were examining a suspicious package sent to the Israeli Embassy in Denmark's capital, authorities said Thursday.
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A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts

A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts

GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition.
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Vatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass

Vatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass

ROME (AP) — Leaked documents seemingly undermining Pope Francis' stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass provided an incomplete reconstruction of the evidence that informed his 2021 decision to crack down on the spread of the ancient liturgy
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