Monday, 6 December 2021 (YJC)_ During a visit to Greece, Pope Francis apologized for the historic mistakes of Catholics in sowing discord with the Orthodox Church.
Sunday,3 October 2021 (YJC)_ Figure from head of commission investigating sexual abuse shows there were 3,000 pedophiles in French Catholic church since 1950s.
Sunday, 28 March 2021_A suspected suicide bomber blew up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding some people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, police and a witness said.
Tehran, 31 March_ Churchgoers in many countries of the world ignore physical distancing advice and keep holding religious services despite the coronavirus pandemic, a report says.
TEHRAN, Sept 19_A fire that destroyed an ancient Holy Land church near the Sea of Galilee around 700 CE appears to have preserved the church 's beautiful mosaic floor, which includes depictions of baskets, loaves and fish, as well as inscriptions.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Gunmen killed a priest and five parishioners during mass Sunday in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, security sources and a local official said.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Sri Lanka said on Monday it was temporarily blocking some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after mosques and Muslim-owned businesses were attacked in the wake of Easter bombings by Daesh terrorists.
TEHRAN, May 12 - An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced two men to death and eight others to between three years and life in prison over an attack on a church and Christian-owned shop in Cairo that killed 10 people.
TEHRAN, Apr 29 -Sri Lankan security officials have warned that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday’s suicide bombings are planning attacks and could be dressed in uniform, as the archbishop of Colombo complained about insufficient security around church es.
TEHRAN, Apr 22 - The number of people killed in the series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka capital has risen to 290, and more than 500 people injured according to a police statement.
EHRAN, Apr 21 - Several explosions have hit three church es and three hotels in Sri Lanka, leaving at least 156 people dead and over 400 others wounded.
TEHRAN, Apr 16 - Locals were overheard singing hymns outside the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as firefighters continued battling the flames there into Tuesday morning.
TEHRAN, Apr 16 - Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral has gone up in flames, leaving the nation awestruck and prompting fears that the historic structure could suffer unprecedented damage.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 -A Spanish priest says his church canceled the projection of an award-winning documentary on the plight of Palestinians in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip due to threats and pressure from “powerful Jews” in the European country.
TEHRAN, Jan 27-Twin bombings during a Sunday church service on a predominantly Muslim island in the volatile southern Philippines killed at least 17 people, among them civilians and security forces, the military said.
TEHRAN, Jan 27-Pope Francis said on Saturday the Roman Catholic Church was weary and “wounded by her own sin,” in an apparent reference to the global sexual abuse crisis.
TEHRAN, Jan 23 - The Czech Parliament's lower house has approved a proposal drafted by Communist lawmakers to tax the compensation that the country's church es receive for property seized by the former Communist regime.