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Gunmen killed a Christian cleric and wounded his colleague as they were driving home from church in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, police said.Pastor William Siraj died instantly in the ambush, church authorities said.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the shooting in a city where a twin ...

Israel is committing modern slavery against Palestinians through its control of the disputed territories, said Stated Clerk Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II of the US Presbyterian Church on Monday in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day statement."The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st-century slavery and should be abolished ...

SRINAGAR, Jammu and KashmirThis Christmas has been a little more joyous for Christians in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.As Saturday dawned, final preparations were being made for the first Christmas prayers in almost four decades at the 125-year-old St. Luke’s Church.Nestled in the foothills of the ...

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)The bells started ringing and the faithful gathered for mass prayer as the Saint Lukes church in Srinagar - one of the oldest in Kashmir - came alive after three decades on Wednesday just ahead ...

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – For the first time in three decades, a 125-year-old church in Indian-administered Kashmir reverberated with traditional bells and religious songs. Ahead of Christmas, nearly a dozen Christians gathered at Saint Luke’s church in the disputed region’s main city of Srinagar on Wednesday – a day ...

Sinha inaugurates reopening of 125-Yr-old St Luke’s Church in Kashmir Calls for brotherhood, peace, selfless service Jammu Tawi/Srinagar, Dec 23: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Thursday inaugurated the reopening ceremony of historic St Luke’s Church in Srinagar that has been fully renovated, conserved and opened for the public to offer prayers. ...

With Christmas around the corner, a dozen people gathered in Srinagar on Wednesday and offered prayers inside the 125-year-old St Luke’s Church — for the first time in over three decades. With less than 1,000 Christians in the Kashmir Valley according to official estimates, St Luke’s Church was shut ...

French President Emmanuel Macron turns 44 today, but his birthday is unlikely to soften the combative nature of the debate in France ahead of the country's election next year. He faces potentially stiff competition from right-wing figures such as Valérie Pécresse, who was projected to win a second round ...

MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) — After 3 1/2 years living inside a Missouri church to avoid deportation, Honduran immigrant Alex Garcia finally stepped outside Wednesday, following a promise from President Joe Biden’s administration to let him be. Garcia, a married father of five, was slated for removal from the U.S. ...

A second-floor window afforded Saheeda Nadeem glimpses of a city park, but she did not dare go for walks — it could have exposed her to deportation.So could visiting her daughter’s grave. Since 2018, Ms. Nadeem, an undocumented immigrant, had faced the specter of being forced to return to ...