Newlywed militant suspects blamed in Indonesia church attack
Updated: 10pm (AEDT) Makassar, IndonesiaAP Indonesian authorities on Monday identified a newly married couple with suspected militant links as the attackers who used a pressure cooker to blow themselves up outside a Roman Catholic cathedral during Palm Sunday Mass. The attack wounded 20 people, including four church guards, and broke windows at the church and […]
Patriarch: Pope to meet Iraqi Shiite leader Sistani in Iraq
Rome, Italy AP Iraq’s top Catholic official said Thursday that a deadly suicide bombing in Baghdad hasn’t thwarted Pope Francis’ plans to visit, and he confirmed the pontiff would meet with the country’s top Shiite cleric, Ali al-Sistani, in a significant highlight of the first-ever papal trip to Iraq. The Chaldean Patriarch, Cardinal Louis Raphael […]
Attack in Kabul kills 18; al-Qaeda leader killed in Ghazni
Kabul, AfghanistanAP The death toll from the suicide attack Saturday in Afghanistan’s capital has risen to at least 18 killed and 57 people wounded, including students, the interior ministry said. Afghan security officials separately announced on Saturday that a senior al-Qaeda commander had been killed in a recent operation in the country’s east. An Afghan […]
Christian leaders join in condemnation of suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
Christian leaders have joined in condemning the suicide bombing of a hospital in Quetta, south-west Pakistan, in which more than 70 people were killed and more than 120 were injured. Monday’s attack, which has been claimed by both the so-called Islamic State and a faction of the Taliban in Pakistan, targeted those mourning Bilal Anwar […]