Tag: Church

Pope Benedict XVI heads Monday to multi-denominational Cuba, where the Catholic Church has minority status but maintains a special dialogue with the communist regime,...

A suicide bomber smashed his explosives-laden car through the gates of a packed church during Sunday service in Jos, central Nigeria, killing three people...

The bomb exploded as Esther Ibu walked out of the church, her five-month-old son in her arms, the power of the blast throwing her...

Sex scandals have strained relations between Silvio Berlusconi and the Church to breaking point, but the Vatican has not managed to find a viable...

Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday he could understand why people were turning their backs on the Catholic Church after the recent sex abuse scandals,...

A Malaysian Christian group on Thursday condemned a raid by Islamic officials on a church compound as a threat to the mostly Muslim country's...

Fifteen people were wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb targeting a Syrian Catholic church in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a police officer and...

Capri and Prince cinemas, as well as St Anthony’s Church have made it onto the Sindh government’s new list of 1,016 buildings to be...

Thousands of people rallied in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday calling for national unity, after attacks on Egyptian churches, and for solidarity with the...

Malaysian premier Najib Razak Thursday met church leaders in a bid to ease religious tensions stirred by a report that minority Christians wanted to...

CAIRO - Two men were killed during clashes in Egypt between Muslims and Christians, which also saw Muslims set fire to a church in the village of Sol, south of Cairo, a security official said on Saturday. "Two people were killed, and the Shahedain church set on fire in clashes between two families," the official told the MENA news agency.
The violence was triggered by a feud between the families, which disapproved of a romantic relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim

BERLIN - Germany's Roman Catholic Church on Thursday offered 5,000 euros in compensation to victims of child abuse, a figure dismissed as 'stingy' by victims' representatives. Germany's Bishops' Conference said 5,000 euros would be offered although in some cases the figure could go higher.
"In especially serious cases, other payments are possible," a statement said. It said it had already informed a government panel set up to combat child abuse concerning the plan and victims

LAHORE - Punjab Minorities and Human Rights Minister Kamran Michael said on Tuesday that construction of a new building of the affected church and pastor houses in Sangla Hill has been completed at cost of Rs 40 million. He was talking to representatives of the Christian community.
The minister said that besides a state-of-the-art building of the Presbyterian Church, pastor houses have also been constructed. He said that repair and renovation work of more than 100 churches has

CAIRO - Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adly said on Sunday that a Palestinian group was behind the New Year's church attack in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria that killed more than 20 people.
"The Palestinian Islamic Army, which has links to Al Qaeda, is behind the attack on the al-Qiddissin church in Alexandria," Adly said in a speech to mark Police Day, carried live on state television. President Hosni Mubarak took to the stage to congratulate the police "for finding

CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Saturday that a deadly church attack in Alexandria on New Year's Eve targetted the whole country and not just its Coptic Christians.
The bombing outside the church that killed 21 people emerging from mass was "directed at Egypt and Egyptian unity and to weaken the national fabric," Abul Gheit said after talks with visiting French counterpart Michele Alliot-Marie. "The Egyptian people, Christians and Muslims, had the

MAIDUGURI - The attackers came on Christmas Eve with guns blazing and armed with homemade bombs, shooting a security guard in the head and seeming to want to burn down the church.
A priest at the evangelical church in the northern city of Maiduguri, along with the senior pastor, his wife and another church member, witnessed the shooting and ran for cover. Three blasts went off, but the church did not burn. "The four of us rushed into the senior pastor's quarters within the church

Charlotte Church is "deeply sorry" for her derogatory remarks about the Queen in a recent interview - insisting she can't even remember making the comments. The former classical singer revealed in a recent chat with men's magazine Esquire that she "felt sorry" for the royal because she is an old woman who has "no idea what's going on". She added that she had met the ruler on several occasions, and the 84 year old had never remembered her. The comments hit the headlines this month and