Houses belonging to local Christians were set on fire late on April 23 in Egypt's southern Minya province, the most recent of similar acts of sectarian violence against the country's religious minority.
Armenians remembered the 1915 genocide on April 24, but many are concerned about their heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been held by Azerbaijan since November 2020.
The archdiocese of the Latin Catholic Church in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram says the Indian Union government has frozen its bank accounts after fishermen protested a project by the Adani port group in Vizhinjam.
The World Council of Churches. in its morning prayers on April 22, focused on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, solemnly marking the 11th anniversary of the abduction of archbishops of Aleppo
The Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College in New York, has sent a message recommending Jewish students leave campus and go home, as anti-Israel agitators have continued an "encampment" on campus, but not all Jewish groups agree with him.
Pope Francis has made "a heartfelt appeal" to "stop every action that could stoke the spiral of violence and risk dragging the Middle East into a much bigger war conflict" on the morning after Iran's attack on Israel.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay says the WCC cannot reconcile the Decree of the XXV World Russian People's Council, whose head is the Orthodox Patriarch, and which described the conflict in Ukraine as a "Holy War."
Peace in Colombia has been a long time coming, Juan Carlos Cuéllar, representative of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), said at a World Council of Churches panel discussion titled "The things that make for peace in Colombia" on April 9.
Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Druze faiths in Haifa, recently called for coexistence in the northern Israeli city amid the tensions sparked by the war in Gaza.
