Pope John Paul II has spoken out against attacks on Iraq's Christian community after the bombing of two churches in the northern city of Mosul

20/3/2005A British man has been killed and about 12 other people injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Qatar

A man has been arrested by British police for alleged involvement in the Madrid bombings that killed 191 people in March 2004

20/3/2005 more than 30 people have been killed and many injured in a bomb blast at a Muslim shrine in southern Pakistan

An explosion in Lebanon near the Christian port of Jounieh has killed two people and injured several more

March/23/2005

Returning Sudan's stolen children 23/3/2005

Mosul (AsiaNews) – In Mosul, theatre of kidnappings, slaughters and violence perpetuated by Sunni rebels and criminal gangs, Christians live under constant threat.  But if the passage from life to death is the meaning of Easter around the world, the certainty of Resurrection is what distinguishes the life of Iraqi Christians in what amounts in a way to retracing Jesus’ 23/3/2005

DUBAI: A shadowy Islamist group which claimed it carried out last week's suicide bombing in Qatar said in an Internet statement it was responsible for an oil refinery explosion in Texas that left 15 people dead 26/3/2005

bomb has exploded in a mainly Christian area of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killing two and injuring eight 27/3/2005

Kissing tourists stabbed in Cairo 31/3/2005

Israel's supreme court has ended the monopoly on conversions to Judaism held by Orthodox Jewish rabbis

Kurds Prevent Assyrian Representation, Continue Divisive Formula in IRAQ

DUBAI — The 22-year-old Filipina hotel employee who died of multiple stab wounds on Tuesday morning had plans to return home and pursue a Master or Law degree, sources disclosed yesterday

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- A bomb severely damaged a shopping and residential center in a mountain resort in the Christian heartland northeast of Beirut, lightly injuring seven people, police and witnesses said

Washington, D.C. (3/31/05)—U.S. Copts Association denounces the killing of an  eight-year old Coptic girl near the Mankateen village of Smalout province in Egypt as she and other children exited a church building. Like other Christian residents of Mankateen village

The Czech Republic has announced it will extradite a member of the ruling family of Qatar, arrested in Prague for allegedly sexually abusing young girls

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- An obscure Islamic group has claimed responsibility for a bombing in the heart of old Cairo Thursday that killed three people, including one American

Just before dawn, Cairo resident Muhammad Ahmad is jolted out of his peaceful sleep by a thunderous azan, or call to prayer, roaring out from huge speakers attached to a very modest mosque two streets away

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Two veiled woman shoot at a tourist bus, while a man blows himself up, in two attacks against tourists in Cairo that leaves the three assailants dead and seven people wounded

BEIRUT, 7 May 2005 — At least two people were killed in an explosion that ravaged a shopping area in the port city of Jounieh in the Christian heartland north of Beirut late yesterday

Tehran (AsiaNews/Compass) – Hamid Pourmand, a Protestant clergyman who was born a Muslim, was moved from Tehran’s Evin Prison in an armoured car two days ago, May 16, to his home town of Bandar-i Bushehr (southern Iran), where an Islamic court will hear charges of proselytising and apostasy against him. He could get the death penalty and be hanged

Nigeria's war on Christians Islamic law brings death, suffering to non-Muslims

More than 10,000 Christians have been killed since 1999, the year Islamic "Sharia law" was introduced in Nigeria, according to a group that aids the persecuted church around the world

More than 50 people died in the London bomb attacks, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said.

Muslim mobs burn Christian homes Attacks sparked by man inadvertently burning Quranic verse

Five people, including one British and one Irish woman, were killed. At least 13 others were injured, including five Britons 17/7/2005

(CNN) -- Deadly explosions that rocked the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday may be linked to a series of bomb blasts last October in the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt's interior minister said

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- An investigation has begun into a powerful explosion that rocked a Christian area of Beirut Friday night, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit

At least two people were injured when an explosion took place in the Zalka suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The blast, which could be heard several kilometres away, occurred outside a hotel and shopping centre in the mainly Christian area of the city. 23/8/2005

A powerful blast has rocked an eastern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killing one person and injuring at least 22 more

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) -- Thousands of police manned barricades around Christian places of worship in this Mediterranean coastal city Saturday after seething sectarian tension spilled into the streets 23/10/2005

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings 19/2/2006

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