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by bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church fire, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, News | 0 |
For Mariam Habeib, the grief seems never ending: She lost her older sister, two nieces and a niece’s three young children in an intense fire that engulfed a church in Egypt’s capital during a recent service and killed 41 people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church fire, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis offered prayers and condolences to the victims of a fire in an Orthodox Church that took the lives of 41 people — including 18 children — who died in a fire in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church fire, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, News | 0 |
Some Catholic leaders have joined the Coptic Orthodox Church in mourning the 41 people — including 18 children — who died in a fire in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | Associated Press, Church fire, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Christians, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, News | 0 |
Egypt was in mourning Monday over a blaze at a Coptic Orthodox church that killed 41 people, but many also raised questions about the emergency response, fire safety codes, and restrictions on building houses of worship for the country’s Christians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2022 | Associated Press, Church fire, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Christians, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, lead, News | 0 |
A fire ripped through a packed Coptic Orthodox church during morning services in Egypt’s capital on Sunday, quickly filling it with thick black smoke and killing 41 worshippers, including at least 15 children.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Bishop David J. Malloy, Catholic News Service, Church fire, Church in the US, Illinois, News | 0 |
Early morning thunderstorms are blamed for a fire that broke out in Rockford’s oldest Catholic church Aug. 8.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 13, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church fire, Church in the US, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, News, West Virginia | 0 |
More than two weeks after a 145-year-old Catholic church near Shady Spring was destroyed by fire, law enforcement officials announced July 12 that two suspects were arrested and charged with felonies for a blaze officials confirmed was arson.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Associated Press, Church fire, Church in the US, Maryland, News | 0 |
Investigations are underway into several weekend incidents of apparent arson and vandalism at churches in Maryland, authorities said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 24, 2022 | Arson, Catholic News Service, Church fire, Church in the US, Cleveland, Diocese of Cleveland, News | 0 |
A fire that caused $1 million in damage to a Catholic school in suburban Cleveland Feb. 19 was deliberately set, fire investigators said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 2, 2021 | Bishop Richard F. Stika, Catholic Charities, Catholic News Service, Church fire, Church in the US, Knoxville, News, Tennessee | 0 |
Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, was walking through the fire-damaged administrative offices of Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, when he came across a small wooden crucifix hanging on a wall with a rosary draped over it.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 17, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic news, Church fire, church vandalism, Europe, Free Access, Hate crimes, News | 0 |
According to newly published data from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the number of hate crimes against Christians in Europe rose sharply in 2020. The OSCE data, published Nov. 16, documented 980 incidents against Christians, including arson attacks on Catholic churches, desecration and robbery of Eucharistic hosts, assaults on priests, and anti-Catholic graffiti
The post Nearly 1,000 hate crimes against Europe’s Christians recorded in 2020 appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2021 | Arson, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church fire, Church in the US, diocese of Nashville, News | 0 |
A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Wednesday to civil rights violations for setting fires at four churches, prosecutors said.
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