Hundreds of Bangla Speaking Migrant Workers Detained in “Holding Centres” Across Gurugram Tue 29 July 2025: In Haryana’s Gurugram, tensions are at an all-time high as thousands of Bengali-speaking migrant workers, particularly from the Muslim community, are being detained by the police in an ongoing crackdown targeting them as alleged foreign nationals from Bangladesh. On […]
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Mon 28 July 2025: At least 21 people were killed on Sunday in an attack on church premises in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by a rebel group, according to a civil society leader. The attack was carried out by members of the Allied Democratic Force (ADF) around 1 am inside the premises of a Catholic church […]
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Mon 28 July 2025: Australia has seen a “dramatic surge” in Islamophobic incidents since the Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border attacks by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israel that ignited the Gaza war, with women and girls disproportionately targeted, local broadcaster SBS News reported Monday. The report cited Nora Amath, executive director of the Islamophobia Register […]
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Sun 20 July 2025: Pope Leo called for an end to the ‘barbarity of war‘ on Sunday as he spoke of his profound pain over an Israeli strike on the sole Catholic church in Gaza. Three people died and several were injured, including the parish priest, in the strike on the Holy Family Church compound in Gaza City on Thursday. […]
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Fri 11 July 2025: The historical Ayasofya [Hagia Sophia] Grand Mosque celebrates its fifth anniversary after the landmark decision to change its status from a museum to a mosque in July 2020. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the anniversary with a message shared on X on Thursday. “Five years ago today, we broke its chains and […]
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Fri 04 July 2025: France must better regulate private schools and allow prosecutions for abuse of pupils whenever it was committed, two lawmakers said in a report published on Wednesday after allegations of decades of abuse at a Catholic school. The parliamentary investigation into French schools was triggered by dozens of complaints of physical and […]
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Wed 02 July 2025: “Hunger must not be used as a weapon of war,” said Pope Leo on Tuesday, referring to Israel’s brutal and inhumane blockade of vital humanitarian aid, food, and medicines in the Gaza Strip since March 2. “We are now witnessing, with deep sorrow, the inhumane use of hunger as a weapon of war,” said the […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: A German court on Tuesday rejected a sexual abuse survivor’s claim for €830,000 ($980,000) in compensation, ruling that the Catholic Church cannot be held liable for the actions of a priest outside his “official capacity.” The Cologne Regional Court controversially ruled that the accused priest committed these crimes outside the exercise of his official duties […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Police in Turkiye have detained four people over a cartoon published by the satirical magazine LeMan, which critics say appeared to depict Prophet Muhammad and Prophet Moses shaking hands in the sky as missiles fell below in a war-like scene – a claim the magazine denies. The cartoon, published last week, […]
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Fri 27 June 2025: Catholic pontiff says international rules have been ‘replaced by the presumed right to overpower others’. Pope Leo XIV has lamented what he described as the rise of blunt power over the rules of international law as conflicts rage around the world and global institutions continue to fail to end abuses and […]
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