Tag: AP
Thousands of churches closed in Rwanda, as Cameroon considers following suit
Pentecostal churches, like this one in Ethopia’s capital Addis Baba, are mushrooming in sub-Saharan Africa. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) World Watch Monitor - 12/4/18 Rwanda has ... Read More
Pope Francis: Vatican had 2,000 sex abuse cases backlog, sluggishness complaints justified
Pope Francis, Portugal May 13, 2017. © Pedro Nunes / Reuters RT.com - 15/5/17 The Vatican had a backlog of 2,000 cases while processing allegations of ... Read More
At least 15 dead after blast near church in Egyptian city 90km from Cairo – report
© Google Maps Tanta church attack (Twitter) http://english.ahram.org.eg RT.com - 9/4/17 Updated - 41 people killed and more than 21 injured! LIVE UPDATES HERE: At least ... Read More
Pope’s clemency for pedophile priests under scrutiny following latest scandal
Pope Francis © Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters RT.com - 27/2/17 Pope Francis’ unshakeable belief in the power of mercy has been called into question after ... Read More
‘So senseless’: Nuns found murdered in rural Mississippi
Sister Paula Merrill (left) and Sister Margaret Held were found stabbed to death in Durant, Mississippi © WWLP-22News / YouTube / © RT.com - August 2016 ... Read More
Over 4,000 Christians Killed for Faith-Related Reasons in 2014: Report
© East News/ AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty Sputnik - January 2015 4,344 Christians were killed and 1,062 Christian churches were attacked for faith-based reasons between November 1, ... Read More
Iraqi Christians Flee Homes Amid Militant Push
17/6/14 ALQOSH, Iraq (AP) -- Over the past decade, Iraqi Christians have fled repeatedly to this ancient mountainside village, seeking refuge from violence, then returning ... Read More
HELP SERBIA AND THE BALKANS
18/5/14 More than 20 people have been killed in what has been branded the worst flooding on record across the Balkans. Tens of thousands have ... Read More
Ringing the bells in Bethlehem, to keep those old Christmas traditions alive
Khadir Jaraiseh, 22, pulls the ropes of four bells in a short tower of the Church of the Nativity, for prayer services of the Armenian ... Read More
US court reverses conviction in Catholic Church child sex abuse case
Catholic Monsignor William Lynn (AFP Photo / Stan Honda) 27/12/13 A Roman Catholic Church official who has been jailed for 18 months for failing to ... Read More
Spitak Remembered
His Holiness Karekin of the Greater House of Cilicia, surrounded by Spitak residents after he climbed a damaged Cathedral. The Catholicoi of Armenia, His Holiness ... Read More
State funeral for Cyprus’ ex-president Clerides
MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press (AP) 20/11/13 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Amid applause and shouts of respect, Cyprus's former President Glafcos Clerides was laid to ... Read More
Pope Leads Prayers for Syrian Peace
VOA News - 8/9/13 Pope Francis has led a prayer vigil for peace in Syria, a country ravaged by civil war and facing possible U.S. ... Read More
Greek monks hurl petrol bombs at bailiffs
COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press- 31/7/13 THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A group of monks on Greece's monastic sanctuary of Mount Athos who are facing eviction attacked ... Read More
Second Christian in a week murdered in Sinai
The Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai peninsula. (photo credit: AP file photo/Enric Marti) 11/7/13 Authorities say Islamist militants killed and decapitated ... Read More
Egyptian Muslims storm church seeking suspected convert
Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, is greeted by Egyptian Christians as he prepares to lead a midnight Liturgy ... Read More
AP Interview: Egypt’s Coptic Christian pope delivers measured criticism of Islamist government
By HAMZA HENDAWI | Associated Press 7/2/13 Egypt's Coptic patriarch delivered a cautious but unusually sharp criticism of the nation's Islamist leadership in an interview ... Read More
Syrian rebels threaten Christian towns
Michael Collins -22/12/12 "What happens when they start killing Christians?"Michael Collins 8/27 Rebels have threatened to storm two predominantly Christian towns in central Syria, saying ... Read More
Morsi wants sectarian clashes culprits punished; Church calls for end to violence against Copts
Dahshour: Egyptian Christian Sameha Wahba, 70, the only Christian who remains at Dahshour village, is hosted by Muslim family of Mahmoud Abou Abdel Karim. (AP) ... Read More
Changing Frescos At Macedonia Orthodox Church Mystify Christian Worshippers
10/4/2012 AP Saint Dimitrija: Changing Frescos At Macedonia Orthodox Church Mystify Christian Worshippers SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Thousands of Orthodox Christian worshippers from across Macedonia are ... Read More
Christmas tree missing in gloomy Athens
PHILIP PANGALOS, ATHENS From: The Times 28/12/2011 IN a sign of the increasingly gloomy times in austerity-stricken Greece there was no traditional Christmas tree in ... Read More