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The new mood is leading to social tension in the city. Last September, men chanting "Allahu akbar" attacked people as they were leaving the city's first gay festival; several were badly beaten. Human-rights activists in Bosnia argue that the city's multiethnic tradition has been undermined not just...
By and large, in Sarajevo that potential still seems remote. The city's residents remain wary of militants. Rustempasic says he doubts any company will ever employ him, and when three Algerian-born Bosnian citizens returned to Sarajevo after six years' detention in Guantánamo, they were shunned by...
The first Haitian to become a Roman Catholic priest in the U.S., Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, led the Miami-based Haitian Refugee Center in the 1970s to promote the rights of the country's immigrants. His efforts enabled Haitians to apply for political asylum, an option that had often...
The POPE joins Facebook, immediately stumped by "Are you Catholic?" quiz
None of this is unfamiliar to Western religious traditions. Roman Catholic Popes are supposedly chosen by the divine intervention of the Holy Spirit upon a conclave of cardinals - yet many have proven less than holy, and wars have been fought over successions. A bit like Catholics through the ages, says...