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Pakistan suicide blast toll hits 65Pakistani authorities launched a hunt on Monday for militants behind a suicide bomb that killed at least 65 people in an attack that targeted Christians and was claimed by a Taliban faction that once declared ties with Islamic State. More… |
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Islamic State takes 150 hostages in SyriaIslamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian Christian group representing several NGOs insid More… |
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IS in Syria abducts 90 ChristiansIslamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Righ More… |
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Islamic State 'worse than Genghis Khan'The head of Iraq's largest church said that Islamic State militants who drove Christians out of Mosul were worse than Mongol leader Genghis Khan and his grandson Hulagu who ransacked medieval Baghdad. Chaldean Catholic Patriar More… |
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Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in EgyptFive Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday, in some of the worst sectarian violence in Egypt for months. Christian-Muslim confront More… |
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‘No religion’ third group after Christians, MuslimsPeople with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world's faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus. The study, based on extensive data for More… |
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Egypt Christians vent fury after clashes kill 25Egyptian Christians turned their fury against the army on Monday after at least 25 people were killed when troops crushed a protest using tactics that deepened public doubts about the military's ability to steer Egypt peacefully towards democr More… |
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23 killed as Egypt Christians, police clashTwenty three people were killed in Cairo on Sunday, the health ministry said, when Christians, some carrying crosses and pictures of Jesus, clashed with military police in the latest sectarian flare-up in the country. Christians protestin More… |
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Ten dead in Egypt clash, premier calls talksEgypt's prime minister called an emergency cabinet meeting on Sunday after 10 people died in bloody clashes in a Cairo suburb over the conversion of a Christian woman to Islam. The sectarian conflict on Saturday was Egypt's worst since 13 More… |
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Egypt blames Al Qaeda-linked group for attackEgypt's interior minister said on Sunday the government had proof that the Army of Islam, a Palestinian group linked to Al Qaeda, was behind the New Year's Day bombing of a church that killed 23 people. Officials had suspected an Al Qaeda- More… |
