Sentences with phrase «church bomb attack»

A Christian man accused of being involved in the lynching of two Muslim men believed to have been connected to the 2015 twin church bomb attack in Pakistan, has died while in jail.

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Deliberate assaults on civilians, the murder of religious figures, indiscriminate bombings in markets and buildings, hijacking and ramming planes full of civilians into buildings occupied by civilians, attacks on and destruction of churches and mosques — all carried out by al - Qaeda, IS, and Boko Haram — violate the clear limits set in Islamic law for the conduct of a jihad.

On Palm Sunday 45 people were murdered in Egypt, many of them Christians, after two separate suicide bomb attacks at different churches in the country.

There'd been a number of terrorist attacks on churches, bombings of churches, continued instances of churches being closed down, so this has been building up for some years.

The Christian Post: Churches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in KaChurches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in KaAttacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kachurches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kaattacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kano City.

(Two weeks earlier in Tanta, a bomb was defused at Mar Girgis — the city's largest church — and a local police training center was attacked.)

The Washington Post also reports that the bombing was «the deadliest single attack on Christians that church leaders could recall in the country's...

The church bombings are the deadliest since a December attack at a chapel of the flagship St. Mark's cathedral in Cairo killed 29 mostly women and children on the Prophet Muhammad's birthday.

In Baghdad, 58 people died in a bomb attack on a church; in Alexandria, Egypt, 21 people were killed and about 80 injured in another bombing.

This weekend saw the deadliest attack ever on Pakistan's Christians — at least 85 people were killed and 100 wounded in a bombing of All Saints Church in Peshawar.

A colleague of mine was in North Pakistan at the time, where a church was being bombed the attack aggravated by what the American pastor did.

In an attack reminiscent of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing, a lone gunman killed nine people Wednesday night at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a historic congregation in downtown Charleston, South Carchurch bombing, a lone gunman killed nine people Wednesday night at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a historic congregation in downtown Charleston, South CarChurch, a historic congregation in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for both attacks - just as it had for the 2011 church attack in Egypt's capital, when a bomb was left under a pew and killed 29 people as they worshiped God.

The Christian community of Youhanabad had been protesting the suicide bombing attack on two churches, which killed 15 people and injured 78 in Lahore as extremists continued to target Christians in the country.

A church minister in Brussels told Premier there is «an element of fear» in holding prayer services following the recent bomb attacks in the capital.

Describing what it's been like to be a Christian in the past year in Egypt, Archbishop Angealos said: «It's in a very painful time, it's the first time in our contemporary history we've seen bombings of churches - we've had three churches bombed in this last year, we've had churches attacked, people killed by gunfire attacks on worshipers as they were leaving, Christians attacked just for being christian, in their homes, in their shops and on the street.

Around 100 Christians died after a twin suicide bomb attack at All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 22nd September 2013.

He was known for several other attacks on the Catholic faith in Northern Ireland and at a loyalist rally in 1968 after attacks on Catholic homes he said: «Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs; Catholic churches were attacked and burned because they were arsenals and priests handed out sub-machine guns to parishioners».

A vivid case in point is the impact that Bull Conner's attacks on the civil rights marchers, and the Ku Klux Klan's murder of four African - American girls in the bombing of a church — among many other such atrocities — had on the unfolding of events, including the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

At least 44 people have been killed and dozens wounded after bomb attacks on two Egyptian churches claimed by the Islamic State group.

In 2017, there were numerous violent attacks across Egypt, including at Easter when 49 people were killed in two church bombings and in May when Islamic extremists attacked people travelling to a monastery in Upper Egypt, killing 29.

Last month, President Abdul Fattah al - Sisi declared a state of emergency after at least 45 people were killed in suicide bomb attacks on two Coptic Christian churches in Tanta and Alexandria.

The attack on Surabaya police HQ comes one day after deadly church bombings in the Indonesian city.

Members of one family were behind bomb attacks on three churches in the city of Surabaya, police say.