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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 100-year-old woman who broke her neck in Derby in a street robbery died of her injuries.
Police officers, politicians, relatives and friends in Liege have paid the last honor to the two agents who were shot a week ago in the center of the Walloon city. Many hundreds of agents were present at the funeral in Liège.
With a church service and a minute's silence in London, the terrorist attack of 3 June 2017 was discussed. Then eight people died and 48 people were injured. The relatives lit candles during a service in the Cathedral of Southwark, the BBC reports.
The German police shot a man in the Dom of Berlin, a well-known church in the center of the German capital. Employees of the prayer house had called the police because someone had gone through the ribbon in the building, reports the Berliner Morgenpost.
A teacher has decided to donate one of her kidneys to a 10-year-old student from her school.
The 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who shot ten people at a Texan school on Friday, gave away a show in a church that same week. Images of the Greek dance act have surfaced.
In the air disaster in Cuba, at least twenty priests from a Protestant church were killed. The company had attended a theological service in Havana and was on the way back to the eastern Cuban province of Holguin, reports AP.
Terrorists are armed with rifles and petrol bombs invading a church in the Chechen capital Grozni with the intention of taking the present believers hostage. According to news agency Interfax, special units of the police have shot the four attackers.
All Chilean bishops have submitted their resignation to Pope Francis. The 34 church fathers want to pay penalties for an abuse scandal that has kept Chile in its grip for some time.
Paul Franciscus warns that financial markets are exploding. The financial derivatives in which more and more money is invested are a ticking time bomb. If that goes off, the whole society will suffer.
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.
The Germans dub about the separation between church and state. Although the government is neutral, there are Christian crosses in Bavarian government buildings as of June. Not everyone is happy with the plan of the conservative government party CSU. Two thirds of the Germans are disappointing.
