Tag: churches
Angry mobs set fire to churches in Pakistan
full screen Destroyed interior outside a church set on fire in Jaranwala near Faisalabad in Pakistan. Photo: Avid Waqar/AP/TT Hundreds of Muslim men attacked several churches and homes in a…
Churches in the United States are forced to close
The United States is usually described as one of the world’s most religious countries, where religion is an important part of Americans’ identity. But in recent years, a change in…
In Ukraine, another war rages between the Orthodox churches
One is in a purple cassock with gilding. The other in camouflage. In a parish of Khmelnytskyi (central Ukraine), on April 2, a dispute broke out between Arthur Ananiev, a…
the Ukrainians massively in the churches
The Orthodox world celebrates Easter this Sunday, April 16. Despite the vagaries of war and the curfew that prevented the holding of night processions, Ukrainians went massively to churches for…
The USA is shaken by this claim! FBI allegedly trying to find “sources” from churches
Records obtained by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said the FBI plans to use churches to “resource” and “identify suspicious activity.” In addition to fundraising using existing resources, the FBI…
Protestant churches will help with the fight against poverty
The Food Bank saw the demand for help rise by 36 percent last year, according to Kerk in Actie. Churches and private individuals will therefore provide food packages and supply…
“Christian churches have always worked together”
The Pope is making his first visit to South Sudan, a predominantly Christian country torn by years of conflict. Francis is accompanied there by Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the…
two churches targeted, an investigation opened for “terrorism”
Two churches in Algeciras, a city in southern Spain, were targeted by stabbing attacks that left one dead and one seriously injured. An investigation has been opened for alleged acts…
Images of hell and churches on the Wadden: the Aleph bookshop will not change even with a new owner
The current owner, Jan van Hassel (65), lives in an apartment above the shop. Jazz records hang on the wall, a tuba stands on the floor, a xylophone next to…
Utrecht churches give away clothes: ‘If people are able to take a look in the closet, then gladly’
Utrecht – “Clothing promotion, handing in open”, reads a sign in front of the Jerusalem Church in the Utrecht neighborhood of Tuindorp-Oost. On Friday afternoon the doors of the building…