Birmingham: A 24-year-old woman in the United Kingdom said she and her boyfriend were removed from an Emirates flight bound for Dubai after an attendant overheard her complaining about menstrual cramps. Beth Evans and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Joshua Moran, said a flight attendant overheard Evans’s conversation and expressed concerns aboutContinue Reading
Singapore: A Singaporean man convicted over a high-profile fraud case at a megachurch was caught Wednesday trying to flee in a boat before he was due to start his sentence, police said. In a case that gripped the city-state with a heady mix of religion, showbiz and fraud, six leadersContinue Reading
Several Islamic clerics and a few Christian leaders held a press conference at a police station in Lahore, Pakistan, this evening (20 February) to send a message to at least 800 families to have fled a Christian neighbourhood in the city, after a 20-year-old Christian man was accused of posting blasphemous contentContinue Reading
The mass shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead has sparked calls for walkouts, sit-ins and other actions on school campuses across the United States aimed at pushing lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws. Organizers behind the Women’s March, an anti-Trump and female empowerment protest, calledContinue Reading
An unidentified gunman fired at worshippers at an Orthodox church in the town of KizlyarContinue Reading
The plane was reportedly brought back into service only months agoContinue Reading
A heavily armed 19-year-old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said. The violence unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a school of more than 3,000Continue Reading
Vatican City: Three young Muslim men who were found guilty of desecrating a statue of Mary were ordered by a Lebanese judge to memorize passages from the Quran that praise the mother of Jesus. The defendants, who live in a mostly Christian village, were apprehended after circulating online a videoContinue Reading
Sydney: The bishops of Australia have called on the faithful of the country to begin the season of Lent with four days of fasting and reparation for victims of sexual abuse within the Church. One suggested prayer for the penitential period asks God: “May all those who have been abusedContinue Reading
Ah, steak and chocolate, the indulgent mainstays of Valentine’s Day dinners. And exactly the kind of extravagances that observers of Lent, which also starts on Wednesday with Ash Wednesday, are asked to avoid. The confluence of the events — occurring for the first time since 1945 — has created aContinue Reading
