Jordan declares 3 days of mourning after church attack kills 7 in Karak

Jordan declared three days of national mourning Friday for the victims of a terrorist attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Hamoud village in the southern Karak governorate that killed seven people.

Pakistan police guard Christian colony after mob attack over 'blasphemy'

Police were guarding a Christian neighbourhood in central Pakistan on Thursday, after hundreds of Muslim men rampaged through its streets setting fire to churches and ransacking homes over accusations of blasphemy a day earlier. 

Albanian in Kosovo opens fire on Serbs celebrating Christmas, Serbs block road after shooting

 

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Russia’s Lavrov calls Ukraine comments by Pope Francis ‘un-Christian’

Moscow on Thursday described as “un-Christian” recent comments by Pope Francis that Russian ethnic minorities were among the “cruelest” actors in Moscow’s military ranks in Ukraine.

Israel rejects 'alarm call' by Christian leaders in Jerusalem - BBC News

Israel has rejected allegations from Church leaders that unnamed "fringe radical groups" are trying to drive Christians out of the Holy Land.