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Jihadi Kills Catholics in Nice’s Notre-Dame

A Muslim jihadi has gone on a stabbing spree in Nice’s Notre-Dame Basilica, killing the male sacristan, beheading an elderly woman at the baptismal font and knifing a fleeing third woman who died in a nearby café. The assailant in his 20s, identifying himself as “Ibrahim,” stabbed and wounded several others around the neo-gothic Basilica of […]

Trump Becomes the First President Since Eisenhower to Change Faiths in Office

More than 180,000 people have stopped identifying with the Presbyterian Church (USA) in the past four years, according to official church numbers. Now there’s one more: President Donald Trump. Trump told Religion News Service in a written interview mediated by spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain that he doesn’t consider himself to be Presbyterian. He was confirmed […]

Latest attack on Coptic Christians highlights religious violence in Egypt

On October 5, 2020, a mob of Islamic extremists attacked the homes of Coptic Christians in the Egyptian village of Dabous, located in the Upper Egypt region of Minya. According to International Christian Concern, two young Muslim adults beat up a ten-year old Coptic Christian child. Some Christian adults retaliated, triggering the attack the next […]

Banner in St. Peter’s Square asks Francis for clarification

Austrian Catholic Alexander Tschugguel took Vatican police by surprise on October 24 afternoon as the “Pachamama slayer” unfurled a massive banner in St Peter’s Square asking Pope Francis for “clarity on same-sex unions.” Tschugguel led a band of faithful Catholics from Castel Sant’Angelo — where the Catholic convert had dumped five Pachamama idols into the […]

Bottomline on pope movie mystery: ‘If you don’t fix it, you bought it’

When I was a child growing up in a small Western Kansas town, my mom from time to time would take me to Main Street to visit the shops. Most had some version of the following sign on display, meant as a warning to be careful with the merchandise: “You break it, you bought it.” […]

Over 20 “caliphate builders” exposed in North Caucasus

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has uncovered two extremist cells in Russia’s internal republics of Karacha-yevo-Cherkessia and Dagestan comprising adherents of the Al-Takfir wal Hijra movement, banned in Russia, seeking to establish a caliphate in the North Caucasus, the FSB press centre told. “The Federal Security Ser-vice of the Russian Federation dismantled the activities of […]

Cardinal says Pope’s new encyclical is a warning: The world is ‘on the brink’

One of Pope Francis’s top advisers said that the pontiff sees the current world situation comparable to that of the Cuban missile crisis, World War II, or 9/11 – and that to fully understand the papal encyclical released on Sunday, October 4, it’s necessary to acknowledge “we’re on the brink.” “Depending on your age, what […]

What Lessons Do Americans See for Humanity in the Pandemic Humanity in What Lessons Do

When an event has as much impact as the coronavirus outbreak – disrupting billions of lives and leading to more than 1 million deaths around the world – it’s natural for people to ponder big questions. Is this just a random occurrence, or is there something more at play? Is it all part of God’s […]

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