In an unusual incident on Tuesday evening, Muslim and Christian residents of the town of al-Khader near Bethlehem clashed after Palestinian terrorists tried to hide from the Israel Defense Forces in
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in Northern Ireland to mark 50 years since “Bloody Sunday,” one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles.
The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to meet Monday for the first time on Russia’s troop buildup and threatening actions against Ukraine at the request of the United States, and all key players are expected to square off in public over the possibility of a Russian invasion and its global impact.
Ireland’s top prelate called the 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry “willful murder” on Sunday during a commemoration of the event.
Ten years after being implemented, a racial quotas system in Brazil is set to end in 2022 and proponents fear that conservative President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies in Congress will not extend the program.
Bishops in Italy are considering the launch of a formal independent inquiry into clerical sexual abuse in the country, yet victims have voiced doubt that the Italian ecclesial hierarchy is ready to take such a significant step.
In what police called a “terrorist act,” two unidentified men followed a pastor returning home in his car after a Sunday worship service and shot him to death in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, which in 2013 was the scene of one of the deadliest attacks on Christians in the country.
Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Jan. 30) killed at least nine Christians in an attack in northern Nigeria, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Jan. 30) killed at least nine Christians in an attack in northern Nigeria, sources said.
Father Giuse (Joseph) Trần Ngọc Thanh, O.P., was killed in a knife attack on Saturday.
A federal high court in Nigeria’s Kaduna state has granted bail to a local journalist from the anti-communist Epoch Times who was arrested for his reporting about attacks against predominantly Christian communities in that country and the government’s response.
