At least 40 fires set in night of arson across Thailand’s south
Bangkok, Thailand Reuters Attackers set fire to shops, cars and utility poles in at least 40 locations across Thailand’s deep south in the early hours of Friday, authorities said, killing at least one person in a coordinated wave of arson. The attacks occurred at around 1:00 am across four southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat […]
Eleven killed in suspected arson attack on northern Mexican bar
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Eleven people were killed in a suspected arson attack on a bar in the northern Mexican border city of San Luis Rio Colorado after an expelled patron set it ablaze with a Molotov cocktail, authorities in the state of Sonora said on Saturday. A forensic technician works at a scene where a […]
Student lit deadly fire at Guyana school after phone confiscated – police
Updated: 10am (AEST)Georgetown, GuyanaReuters A fire in a school dormitory in Guyana that killed 19 children was lit by a student after school authorities confiscated her cell phone, police said on Tuesday. The children, mostly Indigenous girls, died around midnight on Monday, most at the scene. “A female student is suspected of having set the […]
Some 27 people feared dead after blaze at Japan clinic
Tokyo, JapanReuters At least 27 people were feared dead after a fire swept through a psychiatry clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday, and media said police were investigating suspected arson. Some 27 people were in cardiopulmonary arrest, an official at Osaka’s city fire department told Reuters, the term used in Japan before […]
Attacks target US Catholics: Bishops seek answers in vandalism of churches and symbols
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports on the rising number of incidents targeting Catholic churches in the US…
Tennessee man pleads guilty in series of church fires
Nashville, Tennessee, US AP A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Wednesday to civil rights violations for setting fires at four churches, prosecutors said. Alan Douglas Fox, 28, of Nashville, admitted during the plea hearing that he intentionally set the fires because of the churches’ religious character, the US attorney’s office said in a news release. The […]
Wildfire rips through Algeria, killing 42 people including soldiers
Algiers, AlgeriaReuters Forest fires in Algeria killed 42 people on Tuesday, including 25 soldiers deployed to help put out the blaze, the government said, as thick clouds of smoke covered much of the mountainous Kabylie region east of the capital. Dozens of separate fires have raged through forest areas across northern Algeria since Monday night […]
Man charged in San Gabriel Mission blaze that destroyed rooftop of historic church
San Gabriel, California, USRNS A man has been charged in connection with a fire last July that destroyed the rooftop of a church at the historic San Gabriel Mission, the fourth in a series of missions across California that Catholic priest Junipero Serra founded during the Spanish colonisation era. John David Corey, 57, faces two […]
Fire at Black church in US being investigated as possible arson
Springfield, Massachusetts, USAP A fire early Monday morning at a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation is considered “highly suspicious” and is being investigated as a possible arson, authorities said. City, state and federal authorities are investigating the fire that heavily damaged the Martin Luther King Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Fire Commissioner Bernard […]
Catholic chapel becomes 16th church targeted by arsonists in Chile since December
A Catholic church has become the 16th church in the Araucanía and Bío-Bío regions of Chile to be destroyed by arson since last December, according to religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The San Andreas Chapel was burnt down in the early hours of 9th August and CSW reports that, despite an ongoing government investigation, those […]