41 killed, 12 injured in massive church fire in's Giza Egypt
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2022
At least 41 people were killed and 12 injured in a massive fire that broke out in a Coptic church in Egypt's Giza Province on Sunday, the Egyptian Health Ministry said.
Pope apologizes for 'evil' of Canadian indigenous schools
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022
Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada's native people on their land for the Church's role in schools where indigenous children were abused, branding forced cultural assimilation 'evil" and "disastrous error."
With masks and sanitized hands, Italian Catholics return to church
SUNDAY, MAY 24, 2020
ROME - One person after the next filed into the church Sunday morning, walking past a sign at the entrance that noted masks were mandatory and stopping at a hand sanitizer dispenser they were obligated to use. Then they took their seats - two to a pew, instead of the usual four or five. By 10:30 a.m., the church was nearly filled to its new, reduced capacity of 98.
Coronavirus creates conflict for churches, where gatherings can be dangerous but provide solace
MONDAY, APRIL 06, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Pastor Dan Ostring promised parishioners that, as Christians began marking their holiest week on this Palm Sunday, the Rivers of Living Water Church would be open for the fellowship, song and sermon that they have always celebrated together.
How a prayer meeting at a French megachurch may have led to scores of coronavirus deaths
THURSDAY, APRIL 02, 2020
PARIS - The prayer meeting at an evangelical church in Mulhouse, a small city in eastern France near the border with Germany, was just the latest in a series of such annual gatherings going back a generation.
Sri Lankan man who confronted bomber at church door remembered
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka - Ramesh Raju has become a hero to the shell-shocked congregation of the Zion evangelical church in Batticaloa after he died stopping a suicide bomber who was bent on killing hundreds of people.
Pope in Panama strongly condemns Philippine church bombing
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019
Malacanan Palace on Sunday meanwhile vowed to “pursue to the ends of the earth” the perpetrators of twin bombings that killed 25 people and injured 111 others.