“Arise, shine, Bethlehem, for the light of peace has dawned anew.” With these words, Bethlehem celebrated the traditional lighting of its Christmas tree on a packed Manger Square on Dec. 6, 2025, following a two-year hiatus.
Windows at a partially empty home store are taped as protection against storms in Old Havana, Cuba, July 15, 2021. Associated Press / Photo by Eliana Aponte Cub...
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday sent five criminals to the small country of Eswatini in southern Africa after their home countries refused to take them back, DHS Assistant Secretary Tri...
Tanzania s government has shut down a prominent church after its founder and pastor, a ruling party lawmaker, denounced ongoing human rights violations in a sermon The move came less than a day after
Police in Pakistan delayed registering a complaint by a Catholic woman gang-raped by three Muslims in front of her 3-year-old daughter and are pressuring her to withdraw the case, she said.
Fulani herdsmen on Friday killed five Christians and wounded three others in an area of northwest Nigeria s Kaduna state where at least 110 others have been kidnapped in the past six months, sources
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released an English-language video on Monday evening in which he again denied any personal responsibility for the Hamas invasion of Oct 7, 2023, while also
Aviation regulators in India and South Korea on Monday ordered airlines to inspect the fuel switches on Boeing 737 and 787 aircraft models. Some airlines conducted their own independent reviews, inclu...
The project has been criticized even by religious leaders in the East African nation.
Fulani herdsmen on Friday (July 11) killed five Christians and wounded three others in an area of northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state where at least 110 others have been kidnapped in the past six months, sources said.
On a rare solidarity visit, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III and Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa asserted that Israeli authorities ‘facilitate and enable’ the presence of settlers who have intensified attacks in recent weeks.
