Church

Leaders of major property tax have accused Israeli authorities of launching a “coordinated attack” on the Christian presence in the Holy Land by initiating tax proceedings against them. While Israeli officials have tried to dismiss the…
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Australian police on Tuesday said a brutal live-streamed knife attack at a church service in Sydney was a religiously motivated “terrorist” act, as they urged calm from the angered local community. A prominent bishop was among those…
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Turkish authorities have captured two gunmen who shot one person dead on Sunday during a service at a church in Istanbul, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, in an attack claimed by Daesh. Yerlikaya said the attack, which Ankara…
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Pope Francis expressed his support for a Catholic church in Istanbul where one person was killed in an armed attack during Mass on Sunday. “I express my closeness to the community of the Santa Maria Church in Istanbul,” the Argentine…
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One of the standout tourist attractions in Egypt’s Ismailia Governorate is the Church of St. Mark, located about 100 km east of Cairo. Flobater Gad, a researcher in Coptic architectural art, said: “The Church of St. Mark in Ismailia is…
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Turkish security forces have detained 32 suspects over alleged links with Daesh terrorists who were planning attacks on churches and synagogues as well as the Iraqi embassy, a security source told AFP on Friday. The Turkish Intelligence…
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Ukraine’s Interior Ministry on Friday placed the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, a backer of the Kremlin’s 21-month-old war against Kyiv, on a wanted list after security services accused him of abetting the conflict. The measure is…
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Former US Representative Justin Amash said on Friday that several of his relatives had been killed when a Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip was hit overnight by an Israeli air strike. “Our family is hurting badly,” Amash wrote on…
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday inaugurated the first church built with government backing in overwhelmingly Muslim Turkiye’s 100-year history as a post-Ottoman state. The Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Church’s opening marks an…
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Charred walls, collapsed tin roofs and smashed windows in a burned Kuki community church illustrate how deadly ethnic violence has led to brutal sectarian attacks in India’s troubled Manipur state. At least 120 people have been killed…
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