The Egyptian Air Force killed nineteen supporters of the Islamic state group in northern Sinai. Among them were three headlines of the IS branch on the peninsula, reported the army on its Facebook page.
In an attack on a checkpoint near St. Catherine's Monastery in the Egyptian Sinai desert are definitely one death and four injuries. The victims were Egyptian soldiers.
It's what search kneuterig less than decorate Easter eggs and branches. In Greece keep two rival churches traditionally a battle where fireworks by shooting each other home-made firework rockets.
Iraqi Christians in eastern Mosul for the first time in three years again Easter celebrate. Sunday morning rang the bells of dozens of churches. In the courtyard of a church in northern Mosul told a French aid agency after the Eucharist soda and colored eggs from hundreds of believers.
An armed man who sent a threatening manifesto to President Donald Trump, after a manhunt and a half week arrested in Wisconsin. Joseph Jakubowski surrendered without resistance, according to local media.
Egyptian security forces have shot dead in a firefight seven members of Islamic State (IS). Who came together with the intention to commit an attack on Christians. That said, the Egyptian Interior Ministry.
The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) on Sunday threatened shortly after two bloody suicide attacks on churches in northern Egypt with more violence against Christians. 'The crusaders and infidels to pay with the blood of their sons,' was a statement distributed by IS-channels. The statement mentioned two names were the perpetrators.
The Egyptian army to protect public buildings throughout the country. This President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday decided after two bomb attacks on Christians in northern Egypt. In addition, more than forty people were killed and about 120 people injured.
The presiding judge in Cologne on Monday eight men sentenced to multi-year prison terms for theft from churches. The booty they wanted to finance the armed struggle in Syria. The penalties ranged from two years and seven months to four years and ten months.
Certainly hundreds, possibly thousands but Northern Irish children were abused last century and abused in shelters which were led by the government, charities and churches.
Christians have to do with less 'visible' violence had last year than in 2015. Still, the pressure on them, government, family or environment. This enables the organization Open Doors, which on Wednesday for the 25th time the 'Christian Persecution Ranking 'publishes.
Pope Francis on Sunday closed the Porta Sancta, the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. This is an official end came the Year of Mercy. The Roman Catholic Church has since the beginning of the fourteenth century, once in a while a holy year, intended for inner renewal and deepening of the believers.
Italian police on Saturday arrested a 39-year-old Ghanaian man between Friday night and Saturday morning wreaked destruction in several churches in central Rome.
Kerk in Actie has collected in one week more than 1 million to help the churches in the Middle East. That the aid organization of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN) announced Friday. The money is intended for assistance to refugees through churches in Syria and Lebanon. Providing food packages and shelter.
In the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra seven people arrested on suspicion of committing attacks on Buddhist temples.
French President Francois Hollande called after the murder of a priest Tuesday with the pope and promised to do everything to protect churches in France. If a priest is attacked a wound for the whole of France, Hollande said.
The Icelandic parliament has repealed the law on the prohibition of blasphemy. Insulting a religion is there, despite protests from several churches, now legal.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself Tuesday morning at a police station in the Indonesian city of Solo in Central Java. A policeman was lightly wounded.
It is the churches in Germany financially for the wind. The Catholic and the Lutheran church took last year a record amount of taxes on their members together nearly 11.5 billion euros. That made the German statistical office Wednesday publicized.
David (11) and Daniel (10) must be from the country, but that will be done over the body of residents of Baarn. The city comes to the rescue for the teenagers: 'Being Dutch boys, they love French fries and Coke.'
Pope Francis will visit the Greek island of Lesbos refugees on April 16. The trip is intended to stabbing the migrants on the island a shot in the arm and another to settle on the island of the international attention, the Vatican announced Thursday.
Turkish police takes into account possible new attacks IS on Easter Sunday. Police have citizens across the country warned that IS fighters have enabled targeting synagogues and churches. Also, consulates and embassies are possible targets.
A Frenchman who made no secret of having a huge aversion to the church and the clergy, was arrested with his neighbor of stealing numerous objects from churches. French media reported Tuesday that the octogenarian thief was arrested in the Paris suburb of Bagneux, after he was identified with the help of specially installed surveillance cameras.
Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill greeted each Friday in Cuba. The two church leaders met at the airport in the Cuban capital Havana. In a thousand years, the leaders of the Roman Catholics and the Russian Orthodox conducted in person consultation.
Pope Francis meets Friday in Cuba, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill. It is the first time that the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the Patriarch met since the two churches in the eleventh century broke up.
The leaders of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, has already drafted a joint statement of their historic meeting Friday. The church authorities in Moscow reported Thursday. There has to work late into the evening on Wednesday.
US presidential candidates try to start in the last hours before the first primaries, even with all their might to persuade the people of Iowa to vote for them.
The global persecution of Christians has increased dramatically last year. Violence against Christians in 2015 were approximately 7100 deaths, three thousand more than in 2014. The number of destroyed and damaged churches doubled last year to a total of 2 425 church buildings.
Hyeon Soo Lim, head pastor in one of Canada's largest churches, was arrested in February.
