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A 40-year-old woman from Dongen, Brabant, was sentenced to 1.5 years in Belgium for stealing copper drain pipes from eighteen churches in Belgian Limburg. The court in Tongeren...

The Austrian rule of granting a day off only to workers who belong to certain churches on Good Friday is discriminatory. Employers also need the other staff that day...

Egyptian security forces have killed 40 militants during two separate operations after an attack with a roadside bomb Friday on a tourist bus at Cairo. In addition, four people came...

The Italian authorities have arrested a Somali who had suggested to blow up churches. The man is suspected of having ties with the terrorist organization Islamic State, police say.

The Irish may Friday in a referendum on the blasphemy ban in their constitution. Everything indicates that they want to get rid of the ban, because even the Irish churches no longer think of this time.

On Curaçao church leader Orlando B.- who turned out to be a sex-hungry predator who also abused underage girls- sentenced to fourteen years in prison on Thursday. Nor may he exercise the function of church leader for nineteen years.

King Filip interrupts his summer vacation for a visit to Spa. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, a policeman was killed in a shooting. Filip goes to Spa on Sunday afternoon with the Minister of the Interior, Jan Jambon.

Bali is sharp after the bloody suicide attacks of yesterday and today in Surabaya on East Java. At churches and tourist spots on the popular holiday island, the security measures have been considerably increased.

The attack at the police headquarters in Surabaya was committed by a five-person family. According to the police, the attackers arrived on two motorbikes at a checkpoint Monday, where they blew themselves up. One of the children of the family would have survived the explosion.

All perpetrators of the attacks on three churches in Indonesia yesterday came from the same family. At least thirteen people died and dozens were injured in the bloodbath in Surabaya, the second largest city in the country.

At three churches in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, bombs exploded on Sunday morning. According to the police, these are suicide attacks. At least six people were killed and at least 35 were injured, including two police officers. At a fourth church, the police could defuse a bomb.

Ghana has kindly requested mosques to use WhatsApp for prayer calls instead of loudspeakers. Day in day out, Africans face a lot of noise from the calls and something has to change.

In Russia, the first victims were buried from the deadly fire in a Siberian shopping center. The bodies of two children and one adult were taken to the cemetery in closed boxes, the Russian news agency TASS reported.

Criminal art dealers have luxury villas for tourists on the Amalfi Coast, south of Naples, decorated with sometimes ancient stolen paintings. The Italian Marechaussee has seized a total of 37 works of great cultural-historical value.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected, re-opens the doors Wednesday morning. That is what Haaretz magazine has announced. The leaders of the three main Christian denominations closed the sanctuary on Sunday in protest against a municipal tax plan and the planned land policy of the government. Both proposals have been put in the drawer for the time being.

The dull Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder wants to see more crosses in public buildings. 'Getting crosses off the wall irritates me because they are not only a sign of faith but also a basic element of our human dignity. I would like people to hang up again, 'said the CSU candidate for the federal election Monday at a meeting in Bad Tölz.

The European Parliament condemns new human rights violations and the further erosion of the rule of law in Turkey. It rejects, among other things, the arrests of Turkish scientists, journalists, activists, doctors and citizens who have criticized the Turkish military operation in the northern Syrian Afrin region.

Shortly before the visit of Pope Francis three Catholic churches in Chile were attacked. The attacks with incendiary bombs on churches in the capital Santiago caused damage to facades and broken windows.

Once again a young man died from a strangulation. 24-year-old Wesley Denivel was found in her bathroom by his grandmother on December 20th.

Certainly sixteen Egyptian security officers were killed in a firearm with militants on Friday. This occurred during a police invasion in their shelter in the western west of the Nile. According to the Minister of the Interior, a number of extremists have also come to life. The government units are still working out the area.

A 52-year-old Spanish tourist was killed deadly on Thursday by a piece of stone crumbling down from the famous Santa Croce Basilica in Florence. The fracture was probably part of an ornament of the god house where among others Galileo and Michelangelo had a grave.

In his hometown of Amstelveen, Friday theologian and ethicist Harry Kuitert died after a short sick bed. That has let his daughter know Sunday. Kuitert was especially influential in the Protestant churches in the sixties and seventies, and was the cradle of the PKN, the Protestant Church of the Netherlands.

North Korea has released a Canadian pastor born in South Korea previously convicted of life-long forced labor. His release was on humanitarian grounds, according to KCNA State Press Office.

In some places in Florence, Florence wants to act with water against the masses of tourists. For example, the stairs and squares will be wet for a few churches in the center around the midday. This is not only intended for cleaning but also to prevent the countless visitors from having a picnic.

Egyptian fighter aircraft have launched new attacks on Islamic extremists in the Libyan city of Derna on Monday. The attacks take place in consultation with the Libyan National Army, said a spokesman for this Eastern Libyan faction, which is connected with Egypt.

Islamic State (IS) has claimed Friday's attack on two buses with Coptic Christians in Egypt. That made the terrorist group in a statement in a statement.

US President Donald Trump signed a decree on religious liberties on Thursday. That gives churches and other non-taxable institutions some space for political activities. That was forbidden by the separation of church and state. The presidential decree also weakens the rules for employers who are on a belief basis against childbirth.

Under very strict security measures, a mist began in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Saturday for the visit of Pope Franciscus to the country. The pope drove to a golf cart by a stadium just outside the city and waved to the thousands of believers.

Pope Franciscus arrived on Friday for an official two day visit to Egypt. He will meet with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi among others.