The King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, has donated a portion of Bahrain’s land for the construction of the Kingdom’s Coptic Church. This new site of worship will reside in Manama, the Kingdom’s capital, and will serve the estimated 1,500 Coptic families who live in Bahrain and SaudiContinue Reading
Banda Aceh: A young woman screamed in pain as she was caned on Monday in front of a jeering crowd in Indonesia’s Aceh, the latest person to be punished for breaking the province’s strict Islamic laws. Aceh is the only province in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country that imposesContinue Reading
Saudi Arabia has executed a member of the royal family for murder in a rare case involving one of the thousands of members of the House of Saud. Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was put to death in the capital, Riyadh, for shooting dead Adel al-Mahemid, a Saudi, during aContinue Reading
Father Arturo Sosa held his first press conference on October 18 morningContinue Reading
Pope Francis canonized seven people on October 16Continue Reading
Plans to open a McDonald’s next to the Vatican has caused outrage among cardinals. The fast-food chain wants to open a restaurant in a piazza to the right of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. One angry cardinal has reportedly written a letter to Pope Francis urging him to intervene. Cardinal ElioContinue Reading
Baghdad: Around 55 people were killed in Iraq in attacks on Saturday that targeted a Shia Muslim gathering, a police check-point and the family of a Sunni paramilitary leader opposed to Islamic State, according to security and medical sources. The escalation comes as Iraqi forces are getting ready to launchContinue Reading
A former British policeman has set off for West Africa ahead of his challenge to become the first person to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. Ben Hooper, 36, from Cheltenham, UK, will swim about 2,000 miles (3,218 km) from Senegal to Brazil within 140 days. He said for him itContinue Reading
Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN’s cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism’s connections to the religion’s holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision concerning Jerusalem “denies history and encourages terror”. It comes after the body approved a text which repeatedly used only the Islamic nameContinue Reading
As bombs continue to pepper Aleppo where up to 41 people including five children were killed yesterday, the Pope has begged for a ceasefire. An intensive day of bombing yesterday on besieged rebel-held parts of the Syrian city has left activists and volunteers once again counting the dead. Rescue workersContinue Reading
