Diseases And Conditions
JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian government minister who has in the past blamed natural disasters on immorality has caused more controversy by posting anti-gay comments on Twitter and joking about people with AIDS.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Stricken with cancer and fragile from chemotherapy, author and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens sits in an armchair before an audience and waits for the only question that can come first at such a time.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A juvenile court judge in Ohio has rejected the request of a Christian convert's Muslim parents to order the teenager to receive emergency medical treatment for uterine cancer.
BLANTYRE, Malawi - More than 100 members of a Christian religious sect have barricaded themselves in an abandoned building in southern Malawi over their refusal to give their children the measles vaccine, a regional health official said Wednesday.
KORMAKITIS, Cyprus - In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a religion weakened by assimilation, and a division of the island that has lasted 36 years with no end in sight.
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