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Sudan Blames Israel for blast at arms factory
The Sudanese government is blaming Israel for what it says was the bombing of an arms factory in the capital. Sudan Information Minister Ahmed Balal Osman says he believes Israeli warplanes caused explosions and a huge fire at...
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Explosion at Christian meeting in Kenya kills boy, woman
Al Shabaab Islamic extremists suspected of throwing grenade into open-air evangelistic event. NAIROBI, Kenya, April 3 (CDN) — An 8-year-old boy died today from injuries after suspected Islamic extremists on Saturday (March 31)...
Survivors desperately seek loved ones after Jos, Nigeria blast
One man rendered a widower by the Islamist suicide bombing at a Catholic church on Sunday (March 11) discovered his wife had been killed only after finding her severed hand with her wedding ring on it. Another could identify hi...
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Another church in Jos, Nigeria hit by suicide bombing
Two weeks after a suicide bomb attack by the Islamist sect Boko Haram during a church service in Jos left at least three Christians dead, a similar blast during a Catholic Mass today killed at least three people. As in the Feb...
Suicide bombers attack worship service in Nigeria
Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here this morning, killing at least one Christian girl and injuri...
2 churches targeted in bomb attack in Nigeria
Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building in Nigeria Sunday. This took place two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla. Su...
Christians in Nepal Attacked as Constitutional Deadline Nears
Two years after an explosion shook one of the biggest Catholic churches in Nepal and killed three people, the underground group that orchestrated the attack claimed responsibility for another bomb blast this week. A crude bomb ...
Attack on Church Compound in Kenya Kills Two, Wounds Three
Suspected Islamic extremists with Somalia’s al Shabaab militia threw a grenade into the home of the church guard of an East Africa Pentecostal Church (EAPC) congregation outside Garissa, Kenya on Saturday night (Nov. 5), killin...
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Lawyer says Egyptian government stalls investigation of cathedral blast
Five months post former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the perpetrators of the bombing of Two Saints Church, Alexandria, last New Year’s Eve remain unknown–and the government seems to stall its investigation. The suspe...
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Church leaders react to Oslo bomb blast, mass shooting
Christian church leaders condemned recently the twin violent attacks in Norway, including a bomb blast in Oslo targeting a government building and leaving seven dead; and a massacre on an island youth camp leaving 84 dead. The ...
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