Death toll climbs to 63 in deadly Pakistan IS mosque attack
Peshawar, Pakistan AP Officials vowed Saturday to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack in Pakistan a day earlier claimed by an Islamic State affiliate. The assault killed 63 people and wounded nearly 200. IS said in a statement the lone suicide bomber was from neighboring Afghanistan. He shot two police […]
At least 56 killed in suicide bombing at Shi’ite mosque in Pakistan
Peshawar, PakistanReuters A suicide bombing at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 56 people and injured nearly 200, police and hospital officials said. An armed man who arrived near the mosque on a motorcycle opened fire when he was stopped by police, before forcing […]
Three suicide bombers kill three, wound dozens in Ugandan capital
Kampala, UgandaReuters Islamic State claimed an attack in the heart of Uganda’s capital on Tuesday after three suicide bombers killed three people and sent members of parliament running for cover, in the latest in a wave of bombings. The blasts in Kampala, which forced the evacuation of parliament, shocked a nation known as a bulwark […]
Second blast hits Congo’s Beni city after Catholic Church attack
Beni, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters A suspected bomber was blown up when his improvised explosive device went off in a busy intersection of the Democratic Republic of Congo eastern city of Beni on Sunday, authorities said, the second blast in Beni on the same day. No-one was killed in the two incidents apart from the […]
Updated: At least 68 killed in Afghan school blast, families bury victims
Updated: 9.15am, 10th May, 2021Kabul, AfghanistanReuters The death toll from a bomb attack outside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul has risen to 68, officials said on Sunday, with doctors struggling to care for 165 injured victims and families searching desperately for missing children. Explosions on Saturday evening shook the neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, home […]
Maldives leader: Blast that hurt Nasheed attacked democracy
Male, MaldivesAP The Maldives President said Friday an explosion that wounded former leader Mohamed Nasheed was an attack on the country’s democracy and economy, and announced that Australian police would assist the investigation. Nasheed, 53, was wounded in the blast Thursday night outside his home and was being treated in a hospital in the capital, […]
Bomb at religious school in Pakistan kills eight students, wounds 136
Peshawar, PakistanAP A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital spokesman said. The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar during a special class was delivering a lecture […]
Twenty killed in bomb attacks on Philippines cathedral
Twenty people have been killed and dozens more injured after two bombs exploded at a Roman Catholic church in the southern Philippines. The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo. The first bomb detonated as Sunday Mass was being celebrated at about […]
INDONESIA: ANTI-TERROR LAW PASSES IN WAKE OF SUICIDE ATTACKS ON CHURCHES
NITHIN COCA, of Religion News Service, reports from Indonesia…
LIFESTORY: AGED FOUR AND SCARRED FOR LIFE – THE CHILDREN WHO SURVIVED AN INDONESIAN CHURCH ATTACK
World Watch Monitor reports on the lives of children caught up in a bomb attack on a church in Indonesia last November…