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Church attacks

News Reports

Egypt: Angered over approval for a new church, Islamists set fire to houses of Coptic Christians, hundreds of villagers attacked

OpIndia Staff - 30 April, 2024

The incident unfolded in the Minya Province village of Al-Fawakher, which is home to some 3,000 Christian families who follow the Coptic Orthodox Church.

News Reports

Pakistan: Priest accuses Plaza owner Sheikh Ahmed of setting a temple-turned-church on fire, accuses police of protecting him

OpIndia Staff - 2 April, 2024

Pastor Alphonse emphasised that the Muslim businessman Sheikh Ahmed had publicly threatened them that he would not let them hold an Easter service.

News Reports

Germany: shooting inside a church of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, several dead

OpIndia Staff - 10 March, 2023

We heard gunfire, a witness informed reporters. He claimed that there was 12 continuous gunfire. "Then we saw how people were taken away in black bags,” the witness reportedly said.

News Reports

‘Christians under attack’ redux: SC accepts plea moved by scam-tainted Archbishop alleging increased attacks against pastors and churches

OpIndia Staff - 28 June, 2022

Archbishop Peter Machado moved a plea in SC, trying to revive the 'Christians under attack' bogey weaponised by the Left.

World

Nigeria: ‘Gunmen’ storm Church in Ondo, kill over 50 Christians gathered for Sunday prayers and kidnap priest amid rising Islamic insurgency

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2022

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. However, in recent times, Nigeria has been fighting the rising Islamic insurgency where armed groups carry out such attacks and hold people for ransom.

News Reports

France: Greek Orthodox Church priest shot while closing a church

OpIndia Staff - 1 November, 2020

A suspect was apprehended near a kebab shop in Lyon and put under police custody. However, it was not clear whether the nabbed suspect was the 'real assailant'.

Political History of India

Church Bombings in the year 2000: How Christian priests blamed Hindu groups for attacks committed by Islamic terrorists

K Bhattacharjee - 8 June, 2019

Along expected lines, Christian priests blamed Hindu right-wing groups for the 2000 Church Bombings but reality could not have been more different.

Opinions

The face of our ‘liberals’: They wept for Christchurch and rightly so, but where is the outrage on Sri Lanka?

Ashish Shukla - 23 April, 2019

The bomb blasts in Sri Lanka which have killed over 200 people are markedly different from Christchurch shooting of only a month ago.

Crime

Punjab: Police arrests close aide of rape accused Franco Mulakkal with 9.6 crores in unaccounted cash

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2019

Two days after police recovered Rs 9.66 crore in ‘hawala’ money from six men, Father Anthony Madassery of Jalandhar has accused the Punjab police of misappropriation of Rs 6.65 crore.

Crime

Nuns supporting rape accused Bishop Franco to take charge of convent where the victim resides

OpIndia Staff - 21 December, 2018

The three nuns who have been transferred are reportedly very critical of the victim and supporting nuns and were also part of a team which visited Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Delhi pleading innocence of Franco.

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