Tag: church
Five killed in attack on South African church, hostages freed
Five people were killed in an attack on a church west of Johannesburg in the early hours of Saturday, South African police said, with...
Christians in Burkina Faso seek refuge
Concerned about a rise in violence against Christians in Burkina Faso, Pastor Jacques Ouedraogo changed the time of his Sunday service as a precaution....
Catholics killed in another Burkina Faso church attack
Unidentified assailants killed four Catholics and destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary in northern Burkina Faso, a bishop said, the third deadly attack...
Six killed in Burkina Faso church attack
Unidentified gunmen killed a pastor and five congregants in an attack on a Protestant church in northern Burkina Faso, government spokesman Remy Fulgance Dandjinou...
Sentencing in Egyptian church attack plot
Thirty men were sentenced to between 10 years to life imprisonment for planning a suicide bombing on a church in Alexandria and other charges,...
Death sentences for Egyptian church bombings
An Egyptian military court sentenced 17 people to death for involvement in bombing attacks on three churches and a police checkpoint in...
Seven arrests in connection with failed church bombing
Egyptian security forces arrested seven alleged militants suspected of involvement in a foiled church bombing outside Cairo, the interior ministry said.
A militant...
Death toll in Central African Republic church attack reaches 26
Ten more people died from wounds sustained during Tuesday's attack on a church in Central African Republic, the Red Cross said, bringing...
CAR church attack leaves 15 dead
At least 15 people including a priest were killed and scores wounded in Central African Republic's capital Bangui when unidentified gunmen attacked...
Sixteen dead in Nigerian church attack
Armed semi-nomadic herdsmen killed 16 people in an attack on a church congregation in a central state of Nigeria plagued by communal...
Police killed while guarding Kenya church
Gunmen killed two police officers guarding a church on Kenya's southern coast in an attack police said bore the hallmarks of Somalia's...
IS suspects referred to Egyptian military court over church bombings
Egypt referred 48 people to the country's military judiciary for suspected involvement in three deadly church bombings and accused them of joining...
Egypt Palm Sunday bombings claim 44 lives
At least 44 people were killed in bomb attacks on the symbolic cathedral seat of the Coptic Pope and another church on...
Islamic State posts video of apparent Egypt church bomber
Islamic State published a video on Sunday threatening Egyptian Christians and showing the last statement of a man it said was responsible...
Four arrested in connection with Egyptian church bombing
Egyptian police arrested four people in connection with the bombing that killed dozens of Christians at Cairo's Coptic Christian cathedral last month,...
Suicide bomber behind Egyptian church attack – claim
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said a suicide bomber carried out the attack that killed 24 people at Cairo's Coptic cathedral, the...
Cairo church bombing kills 25
A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending...
Bombers target churches in northern Iraq – police
A car bomb exploded near a Catholic Church in northern Iraq injuring at least 16 people in part of a coordinated attack...
