The letter that Marc Dutroux will send to next of kin falls badly in Belgium. Carine Russo, the mother of victim Mélissa, and Jean-Denis Lejeune, the father of victim Julie, talk about 'bullying behavior' and mental torture. 'I can guarantee that when released, I will be around.'
In different countries, the victims of terrorist attacks are commemorated on a global scale for the first time on Tuesday. This takes place on the 'international day of commemoration of and tribute to the victims of terrorism' that falls on August 21st every year. The global day of remembrance was created with a UN resolution in December last year.
The American cardinal Raymond Burke thinks that abuse by clergy is mainly due to homosexuality.
Opposition groups in Nicaragua have called on President Daniel Ortega on Friday to return to the negotiating table. In the wake of riots in the Central American country, according to human rights organizations, around 450 people have died since April.
The Vatican has responded with dismay to the reports of long-term and large-scale child abuse by Catholic clergy in the United States.
Investigative authorities in the US state of Pennsylvania have revealed shocking details about sexual abuse by priests and silence about it by the Catholic Church in the US.
Egyptian security officials have foiled a bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo. The state television has announced this on Saturday. A suicide bomber was on his way to the prayer house in Qalyubiyah with a vest full of explosives. When he was stopped at about 250 meters in front of the entrance, he blew himself up. There were no other victims.
Co-founder Maria Alyokhina of the activist Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot hopes to perform in De Oosterpoort in Groningen in January. She has a program in which she tells others about the original group, which in 2012 made the world press with a protest in a church in Moscow against the conditions under which Russian elections were held. The action against church and Kremlin gave her a prison sentence.
'Get your gold from under your pillow and exchange it for Turkish lira.' With that call, also for euro banknotes, President Recep Tayyip asked Erdogan Turks to use their property as 'resistance against the whole world'.
In the Greek town of Mati, the victims of the great nature fire earlier this week were commemorated on Sunday. Mourning people gathered in a church, where they lit a candle for the deceased. 'Some survived, but for those who died, I hope they make it up in heaven,' a 77-year-old resident said.
A praying woman at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem escaped death when a 100-pound stone fell down. The amazing escape can be seen on a video.
Sarah and Travis Mitchel from the US state of Oregon have been sentenced to six years in prison for refusing medical help for their premature daughter. The girl, one of a twin, has passed away.
The idea was good, but the First Church of Cannabis can not fulfill its promise. The American organization had figured out that it was smart to call 'smoking weed' as a religious activity.
The British royal family prepares for the baptism of Prince Louis, the third child of Prince William and his wife Catherine. The chapel of St. James's Palace is Monday the scene of the ceremony, where traditions are honored.
Pope Francis has called on Saturday for greater efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. The region is currently 'covered by dark clouds', said the head of the Catholic Church Saturday during an ecumenical meeting with religious leaders from the Middle East in the Italian city of Bari.
Three young adventurers were dumped in a waterfall in Canada and died. The trio reported on their travel adventures via social media, the BBC reports. They are part of the High On Life group, which has 1.1 million followers on Instagram and over half a million subscribers on YouTube.
The weather will determine whether there is a hasty rescue operation for the Thai football players locked up in a cave or that they can come out of their plight on foot. It is expected that within a few days, and certainly on Saturday, there will be so much rain in the Chiang Rai region that a tidal wave will flood the place where the boys find themselves. But if the tropical rain showers wait a little longer, the cave, from which water is pumped with all its might, falls so dry that the football players can escape on foot or floating with lifejackets.
The British police assume that the couple who came into contact with the nerve gas Novichok was not the target of a conscious attack. According to Secretary of State for Security Ben Wallace, the police assume a form of contamination with the nerve gas. This was what Wallace said on Sky television Thursday morning.
An Australian archbishop was sentenced on Tuesday to a year in prison for concealing sexual abuse of children by a priest.
A row between two criminal gangs was probably the reason for a shooting Saturday night in the Swedish city of Helsingborg. Swedish media reported this. The police did not confirm that.
A welcome invention for telephone users who regularly drop their phones. A German student has the solution: an airbag for the mobile phone.
Special units of the police and fire brigade got a man from the top of a bell tower in the heart of Paris on Thursday. According to Parisian media, the 'church tower' climber provided 'surrealistic scenes' on top of the Saint-Eustache church, because he had brought a harp and a large kite. With this he installed himself at the top of the building in the first district of the city.
Queen Elizabeth (92) does not feel well and has decided to stay at home. The British queen planned to attend the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George on Thursday. The celebration is at St. Paul's Cathedral in the inner city of London.
For the price of a flat in Amsterdam you can buy a complete village in the Australian Queensland.
If the appearance is not deceiving, Merkels `Willkommenskultur 'ends today with the' open borders'. Minister Horst Seehofer (Home Affairs) wants to close the Bavarian border for refugees who have already applied for asylum in another EU country.
A company that offers everyone a basic income of 910 euro per month after paying a one-off 500 euro, according to the authorities with our southern neighbors 'all the appearance of a pyramid scheme'.
A priest has found two bags with a total of 36,000 euros in banknotes in a confessional seat near the Vatican. The enigmatic find was done in the church Santa Maria delle Grazie all Fornaci.
On Mars, new indications have been found that life might have been possible very sooner. Moreover, it has been discovered that the amount of methane in the atmosphere of the planet rises and falls, which could mean that there is still life on Mars.
A 100-year-old woman who broke her neck in Derby in a street robbery died of her injuries.
A remarkable mourning advertisement in the United States. The relatives of Kathleen Dehmlow who died on March 31 in the American Springfield, is clearly not missed by her two children Gina and Jay. That can literally be read in the obituary advert published in the local newspaper The Redwood Falls Gazette.
