CHILE: WHY ARE CHURCHES UNDER ATTACK?
In an article first published by World Watch Monitor, ISRAEL VILCHES looks at what’s prompted a series of attacks on Christian churches in Chile…
Breaking: At least nine reportedly killed in attack on church in Quetta, Pakistan
At least nine people were reportedly killed in a church bombing in Pakistan on Sunday. Reports said two suicide bombers attacked the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in the city of Quetta and while one was shot by security guards at the entrance to the church, the other managed to detonate his explosives inside, killing at least […]
SNAPSHOT: BONDI BEACH, AUSTRALIA
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Sweden opens church for 5,000 Christians who fled Middle East
World Watch Monitor A new church opened last week in the Swedish town of Södertalje, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm, for the estimated 5,000 to 6,000 Chaldean Catholics who have resettled there after fleeing their homes in the Middle East. Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne, Germany, who participated in the inaugural service, explained to German […]
Seven each day: Mexican women murders on the rise amid drug wars
Thomson Reuters Foundation More than seven women are killed on average every day in Mexico, with numbers surging in recent years amidst the country’s brutal drug wars, a report by the Mexican government and United Nations said. A third of more than 50,000 murders of women in the past three decades have occurred in the […]