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Israel-Hamas war brings back pain to Argentine Jewish community decades after major bombing attack
By MarÍa Teresa HernÁndez — March 1, 2024
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — For many who lost friends and family to the attack, time has not healed their pain.
Mike Pence writes messages on bombs meant for Lebanon. Would Jesus do that?
By Daoud Kuttab — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — A debunked theology is providing cover for supremacists — both white Christian and Jewish — to pursue an illegal war.
Israel searches for traces of Hamas in raid of key Gaza hospital packed with patients
By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy, and Jack Jeffery — November 15, 2023
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas and Gaza health officials deny militants operate in Shifa, and Palestinians and rights groups say Israel has recklessly endangered civilians as it seeks to eradicate Hamas.
Taliban: Mosque blast at Interior Ministry in Kabul kills 4
By Associated Press — October 6, 2022
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The afternoon explosion took place as workers and visitors were praying inside a mosque of Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry.
Bombing at Kabul mosque kills 10, including prominent cleric
By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi — August 17, 2022
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Italian Emergency hospital in Kabul said that at least 27 wounded civilians, including five children, were brought there from the site of the bomb blast.
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left survivors wrestling with spiritual questions – here’s how Buddhists and Catholics responded
By Yuki Miyamoto — August 4, 2022
(The Conversation) — As Japanese victims struggled to process the nuclear attack, many turned to religion. The way they understood the horror still has consequences today.
IS bomber kills 46 inside Afghan mosque, challenges Taliban
By Tameem Akhgar and Samya Kullab — October 8, 2021
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Islamic State suicide bomber struck at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens in the latest security challenge to the Taliban as they transition from insurgency to governance. In its claim of responsibility, the region’s IS affiliate […]
Birmingham church, 56 years later, to recall bombing with messages of love, action
By Adelle M. Banks — September 12, 2019
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) — ‘Our hope is that people will leave inspired, become agents of change as a result of what happened here,’ said the Rev. Arthur Price Jr.
Indonesia passes anti-terrorism law after suicide attacks on churches
By Nithin Coca — July 24, 2018
JAKARTA, Indonesia (RNS) — The new law has bolstered support for President Joko Widodo, a moderate Muslim, but some groups say it gives too much power to the state.
Mourning in Manchester, religious and secular traditions meet and meld
By Catherine Pepinster — May 27, 2017
(RNS) This is a moment where Christian tradition meets secular rituals that have come to define public mourning since this increasingly irreligious nation said goodbye to Princess Diana exactly 20 years ago.
Argentine court revives case on Jewish center bombing cover-up
By guest — December 29, 2016
(REUTERS) An appeals court has revived a case accusing former President Christina Fernandez of trying to cover up Iran's alleged role in the bombing of a Jewish center in 1994 that killed 85 people.
At least 25 killed by blast near Cairo cathedral
By RNS staff — December 11, 2016
The blast took place as a Sunday Mass being held in the chapel was about to end and coincided with a national holiday in Egypt marking the birth of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Muslims love New York, too
By Hussein Rashid — September 19, 2016
(RNS) Muslims have to show we are not perpetrators and we can never talk about how we are victims.
Pakistani Christians can strengthen moderate Islam by their example (COMMENTARY)
By Eric Sarwar — March 30, 2016
(RNS) Christians could play a role as peacemakers and develop a process of reconciliation by bringing hostile groups together for discussion and dialogue.
Religious Jews target of latest attacks by Palestinians
By Michele Chabin — October 13, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) While no one tracks the number of religious vs. secular Jews who have been injured or killed in attacks, religious Jews are thought to be repeat victims.
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