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CAIRO – An Egyptian bishop says 23 Coptic Christians have
been wounded when extremist Muslims attacked a church
community center in a western province.
The Rev. Bejemy told The Associated Press Saturday that a
group of young men pelted cars and threw firebombs at the
Coptic center and nearby homes in Marsa-Matruh.
Bejemy says Friday’s rampage followed a sermon by a
radical sheik and lasted about 10 hours before security
forces brought the situation under control.
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LUCKNOW, (Times of India): Offering human sacrifice to propitiate the gods may not be a novelty in Uttar Pradesh. But the one reported from Bulandshahr on Thursday night is something completely unimaginable. A 12-year-old girl murdered a four-year-old boy purportedly to please a deity. And if this is not enough, here’s the shocker. Parents of the accused are already languishing in jail for killing a four-year-old local girl on January 25 as part of some ghastly ritual.
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Kiran George, a Pakistani Christian girl, who was allegedly raped and burned alive by her master’s son in Sheikhupura, a small town some 40 miles from city of Lahore, Punjab, has since died, according to a report from AsiaNews…
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Faithful were gathered in prayer when attack occurred. There were four priests, one deacon and 400 parishioners in the building, women and children also targeted. Fundamentalists fury, egged on by the…
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A game that tests users knowledge of the bible has been released for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Biblicious 1.0 is a question game that covers all parts of the bible, in 10 to 50 questions at a time. Developed by Pariahware, Inc. the app has a range
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Vatican City, Mar 13, 2010 / 12:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See’s Press Office, released a statement on Saturday morning in which he made three “observations” regarding sexual abuse by people and in institutions of the Catholic Church. He also addressed dismissed as unfounded attempts to link the Pope to a decision to transfer a priest found to have committed sexual abuse when Benedict XVI was Archbishop of Munich.
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Churches in Pakistan have deplored the killing of six World Vision staff members as the international Christian humanitarian organization announced it has suspended its operations in the country, reports Ecumenical News International.
Dean Owen of World Vision said after the attack, “All of World Vision’s operations in the country have been suspended for the time being.” He said World Vision had received “no threatening letters” before the killing.
News agency reports said unidentified g… >>
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A photograph submitted by 10-year-old Jackson Potts II is tamer than the one banned by Houston’s Ecclesia Church, a Crucifixion-inspired work depicting an officer beating the child’s brother.
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Adrian, Mich., Mar 13, 2010 / 07:50 am (CNA).- A religious sister from Mosul reports that Iraqi Christians continue to leave the country because they are targeted by violence. In a CNA interview, she said many people are suffering and tired of the conflict. “Where is the freedom?” she asked.
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The United States accused China of various human rights abuses in its new State Department report including the disappearance of several Christian leaders
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Thousands of Nigerian women dressed in black and carrying Bibles wooden crosses pictures of victims and branches symbolising peace marched in a central Nigerian state on Thursday to protest the massacre of about 500 villagers who were mostly women and children
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Porn and pastors are two things that don't typically meet in the same sentence or the same church, but they did in West County in an effort to help those battling an addiction to pornography. "And w…
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(AP) – NEWARK, N.J. – One of New Jersey’s top high school basketball teams will not play in a national tournament next month because games are scheduled for Good Friday. Headmaster Edwin Leahy of St. Benedict’s Prep, a Catholic school in Newark, announced Friday that the team would skip the ESPN Rise National Invitational tournament to be played April 1-3…
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Posted on Mar 12, 2010 | by Staff NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–A court in Lahore, Pakistan, has granted bail to a wealthy Muslim lawyer accused of the Jan. 22 torture, rape and murder of his 12-year-old do…
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(AP) – CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. – A business manager for three western Pennsylvania parishes has been charged with attacking a parish priest. Forty-six-year-old Kevin Labuda, of Connellsville, was charged Friday with aggravated assault, criminal trespass and related crimes in the March 3 attack on 48-year-old Father Joseph Bonafed. Police say Bonafed was…
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The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal for the first time tonight as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The priest went on to reoffend and was convicted of child abuse but continues to work as priest in Upper Bavaria. The priest was sent from Essen to Munich for “therapy” in 1980 when he was accused of forcing an 11-year-old boy to perform oral sex. The archdiocese confirmed that the Pope, then a cardinal, had approved a decision to accommodate the priest in a rectory while the therapy took place. The priest, identified only as “H”, was subsequently convicted of sexually abusing minors after he was…
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The case of a sex abuser being given accommodation in Munich with the approval of its then archbishop, now the Pope, is reminiscent of the scandal that engulfed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor soon after his appointment to Westminster. While Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, he…
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