SALT LAKE CITY — The Rev. Peter Morales of Colorado has been elected as the first Latino president of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

NEW YORK — Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then suddenly pulled back.

TULSA, Okla. — Workers are toiling in the thick summer heat, trying to bring the campus of Oral Roberts University into the current century.

— Texas: 948 (814 Iranian, 134 Iraqi)

— Michigan: 227 (214 Iraqi, 13 Iranian)

— California: 226 (129 Iraqi, 97 Iranian)

— Illinois: 213 (182 Iranian, 31 Iraqi)

— Idaho: 188 (98 Iranian, 90 Iraqi)

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FERNDALE, Mich. — When the bride and groom arrive at the Mandaean Association, the Middle Eastern salad is ready and flower petals are lightly strewn across the floor.