Death toll from Pakistan blast rises to 59 as minister blames India
Quetta, PakistanReuters The death toll from a large blast at a mosque in Pakistan rose to 59 on Saturday as the government vowed to find the perpetrators and accused India’s intelligence agency of being involved. Friday’s blast tore through a mosque in Mastung in the southern province of Balochistan after a bomber detonated his explosives […]
Demolition of 300-year-old Iraq mosque minaret for road expansion enrages locals
Basra, IraqReuters The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq’s southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged locals, religious and cultural authorities who condemned it as a further erosion of Iraq’s cultural heritage. Built in 1727, the 11-metre Siraji minaret and its mosque were toppled […]
Essay: Abrahamic Family House “changes all the rules” of interfaith understanding
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KNOX THAMES says the mosque, church and synagogue complex is a shining monument to tolerance…
Suicide bomber kills 59 in Pakistan mosque used by police
Updated: 7:10am, 31st January (AEST)Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in Pakistan on Monday, killing 59 people, including 27 police officials, the latest in a string of attacks targeting police. The attacker appeared to have passed through several barricades manned by security […]
Indonesians pray outdoors after deadly quake destroys town
Cianjur, Indonesia Reuters Hundreds of Indonesians prayed out in the open next to rice paddies and in the streets on Friday, as the death toll from an earthquake that flattened their town in western Java rose to 310. Muslim cleric Muhamad Jamhur led a congregation in prayer in an outdoor volleyball court just 200 metres from […]
Bombing at Kabul mosque kills 10, including prominent cleric
Islamabad, PakistanAP A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27, an eyewitness and police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest to strike the country in the […]
Blast in Kabul mosque, IS bombs in north Afghanistan kill 14
Islamabad, Afghanistan AP A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban said, including a blast inside a mosque in the capital of Kabul that killed at least five worshippers and three bombings of minivans in the country’s north that killed nine passengers. The Islamic State group’s local affiliate claimed responsibility for the minivan […]
Deadly blasts claimed by Islamic State hit northern Afghan cities
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters An explosion claimed by the Islamic State at a Shi’ite mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday killed at least 11 people, a health official said, one of a series of blasts around the country. A separate blast caused at least 11 more casualties in Kunduz, another northern Afghan city, […]
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 […]