East Jerusalem: Jewish settlers seize Palestinian homes by force
Asia News
11/5/2009
Israeli courts are increasingly ruling against Palestinian families, ordering them to leave their homes. JERUSALEM (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A group of 40 Jewish settlers have taken over by force another Palestinian house in East Jerusalem’s neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The settlers stormed the ...
'Temporary' Palestinian Refugee Groups Turn 60
Zenit News Agency
11/5/2009
The ongoing conflict is fruit of a 'failure on the part of both concerned parties to engage in significant and substantive dialogue and dispute resolution in order to bring stability and peace to the Holy Land'. NEW YORK, NY (Zenit.org) - The continued existence of a U.N. agency and a pontifical ...
Afghanistan: Runoff Cancelled, Karzai Declared President
Asia News
11/3/2009, by Soraya Rahmani
The decision by the other candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, determined the outcome. He withdrew alleging fear of corruption in the process. KABUL (AsiaNews) – Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) scrapped the second round of vote planned for 7 November and declared Hamid Karzai ...
Bethlehem University Student Deported to Gaza in Handcuffs and Blindfold
Inside Catholic
11/3/2009, by Deal W. Hudson, Ph.D.
Lawyers from the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, which encompasses both the West bank and Israel, tried to intervene with the military with no success. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Inside Catholic) - Berlanty (Betty) Azzam was two months away from receiving her business degree at Bethlehem University. ...
Terrorist Car Bomb Attack Kills 100 in Pakistan
Catholic Online
10/28/2009
This recent incident comes on the heels of increasing violence in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It also intensifies the growing concern within the United States over the future approach which the current US administration will take to both military campaigns. PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Catholic Online) - In ...
Jerusalem Temple Mount reopened after a Sunday of violence
Catholic Online
10/28/2009, by Randy Sly
Fueled by Palestinian warnings about a supposed 'Jewish threat' to the Temple Mount, Arab Muslims attacked Israeli police on Sunday at the Temple Mount, in the Muslim Quarter and East Jerusalem. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) – The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was re-opened for pilgrims and ...
Archbishop of Kirkuk: Iraq has been a 'Country of Martyrs'
Asia News
10/14/2009
Diocese remembers 409 AD when hundreds of Christians were beheaded for their faith and long history of Iraqi Christian Martyrs. Kirkuk (AsiaNews) - For 1600 years, Iraq has been "a country of martyrs", which finds in the “Holy Spirit and the Eucharist" the strength to bear witness to the faith ...
Iraq: Christian Nurse is Tortured and Killed
Asia News
10/6/2009
Imad Elias Abdul Karim, a 55 year-old Christian nurse, was kidnapped in front of his home. His body showed 'obvious signs of torture'. KIRKUK (AsiaNews) - Imad Elias Abdul Karim, 55 year-old Christian nurse who was kidnapped on 3 October in front of his home in the suburb of Mualimin in Kirkuk, ...
Archbishop Sako Worried for Christians in Iraq
Zenit News Agency
10/6/2009
The 55 yr old Christian Nurse, the father of two children, had been tortured. His dead body was found on the streets of Kirkuk. KIRKUK, Iraq, (Zenit.org) - The situation for Christians in Iraq is a cause for worry, according to Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk.
The archbishop said this Sunday in ...
Pope Addresses Attacks on Christians with President of Pakistan
Zenit News Agency
10/2/2009
Christians are urging the repeal of an anti-blasphemy law, which they claim gives Muslims 'an invisible sword.' CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Zenit.org) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Benedict XVI have discussed anti-Christian violence in Pakistan, emphasizing the need to overcome ...
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