Pope to visit Bahrain for conference in November, Vatican says
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis will visit predominantly Muslim Bahrain between 3rd and 6th November to attend an international conference, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. The Vatican said the Pope would visit the Gulf island country off the Arabian peninsula to take part in the Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence. Pope […]
World says goodbye to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II from cafes and consulates
London, UKReuters In Hong Kong, hundreds kept up with Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on their phones as they queued for hours to pay their tributes. In Sydney, Australia, customers packed into pubs to watch the ceremony on screens. And in Paris, France, bar owner Thibaud Dupont showed off the new tattoo of the monarch on […]
UN ends Yemen war crimes probe in defeat for Western states
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Bahrain, Russia and other members of the UN Human Rights Council pushed through a vote on Thursday to shut down the body’s war crimes investigations in Yemen, in a stinging defeat for Western states who sought to keep the mission going. Members narrowly voted to reject a resolution led by the Netherlands to […]
Fiji wins presidency of UN rights body after vote unblocks leadership impasse
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection. The vote was called after an impasse that meant the council, the only intergovernmental global body to promote and protect […]
In depth: Trump’s Mideast deals tout “peace” where there was never war
Jerusalem, IsraelAP For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a US President will host a signing ceremony between Israelis and Arabs at the White House, billing it as an “historic breakthrough” in a region long known for its stubborn conflicts. But while the optics of Tuesday’s event will evoke the groundbreaking agreements that […]
Bahrain becomes latest Arab nation to recognise Israel
Washington DC, USAP Bahrain on Friday agreed to normalise relations with Israel, becoming the latest Arab nation to do so as part of a broader diplomatic push by President Donald Trump and his administration to further ease the Jewish state’s relative isolation in the Middle East and find common ground with nations that share US […]
New cathedral in Bahrain to be Catholic headquarters for northern Persian Gulf
World Watch Monitor A new cathedral being built in Bahrain will serve as the ‘seat of government’ of the Catholic Church for the northern Persian Gulf, reports AsiaNews. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, patron saint of the Arabian Peninsula, to hold 2,000 people, is some 20 kilometres outside the capital Manama, on land given […]
Bahraini king positions as promoter of interfaith tolerance
World Watch Monitor Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa (left) and Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre with interfaith leaders during the signing of the declaration The King of Bahrain has sought to promote his country as a global champion of religious tolerance with a declaration that advocates freedom of religion for all […]