CAIRO: A fire that broke out Sunday in a Coptic Christian church in Egypt’s capital Cairo killed 41 people, church officials said. The blaze started for unknown reasons at the Abu Sifine church in the capital’s northwestern, working-class district of Imbaba, officials said. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared on his Facebook page that “I have […]
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Gun attack on church in southwest Nigeria leaves 21 dead
LAGOS: Gunmen killed at least 21 people, including children, in an attack on a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria on Sunday, local officials said, in violence that drew widespread international condemnation. The bloodshed at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town during a service was a rare assault in Nigeria’s usually safer southwest and shocked […]
CoP president lauds verdict in Sialkot lynching case
LAHORE: The Church of Pakistan leadership has welcomed the sentencing of six people to death and nine others to life imprisonment for the brutal lynching of Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara on alleged blasphemy charges in Sialkot. An anti-terrorism court in Lahore on April 18, also handed down two-year sentences to the remaining […]
More than 160 unmarked graves found near indigenous Canadian school
The western Canadian Penelakut Tribe says it has found more than 160 unmarked graves near the site of a former indigenous boarding school, Canada’s fourth discovery of this kind in recent weeks. In the last month, discoveries of more than 1,000 graves prompted a nationwide reckoning over Canada’s painful past and its policies of forced […]
Seven Greek bishops hurt in acid attack
Seven bishops from the Greek Orthodox Church were hurt in an acid attack late Wednesday by a priest undergoing a disciplinary hearing in Athens, police said. Three of the bishops were still in hospital following the attack, while a police officer who was at the scene was also being treated, police added. Greek media reported […]
Pope’s ‘pain’ over bodies found at Canada’s church-run school
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis expressed his pain on Sunday over the discovery of remains of 215 children in a mass grave at a former indigenous boarding school in Canada run by the Church. But he did not go so far as to offer the apology that many people, including the Canadian government, have been calling […]
Lack of papal apology for Canada indigenous school abuses ‘shameful’: minister
Canada‘s indigenous services minister said Wednesday it is “shameful” that the Pope has never formally apologized for abuses at the country’s Catholic-run indigenous residential schools, which he termed “labor camps.” Marc Miller‘s comments followed the recent discovery of unmarked graves of 215 children in Kamloops at one of 139 boarding schools set up a century […]
Bishop calls for Palestine peace, urges Israel to respect int’l law
LAHORE: A senior Pakistani church leader has urged Israeli and Palestinian authorities to hold direct talks for de-escalating tensions in the restive region and reaching a peaceful settlement to the decades-old conflict. “The church supports the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Both sides have the right to exist and to live in peace and […]
The tomb of Muhammad Saleh Kamboh
Amal e Saleh is one of the most significant books on Shah Jahan’s era. Its author, Mullah Muhammad Saleh Kamboh, is buried in a mausoleum on Empress Road in Lahore. Before we discuss the history of his mausoleum, let’s take a look at his life. Mullah Muhammad Saleh Kamboh and Inayat Ullah Kamboh, were among […]
Extreme Easter: Flogging and crucifixions in Philippines
A man was nailed to a cross with up to 10 more to follow while barefoot men beat themselves with flails on Good Friday, in a blood-soaked display of religious fervour in the Philippines. Frowned upon by the Church, the ritual crucifixions and self-flagellation in the north of the country are extreme affirmations of faith […]