Topic: United Nations
Priests in the Holy Land used their sermons on Sunday to give their blessing to the Palestinians' bid for United Nations membership.The retired Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, the first Palestinian to hold the post since the Crusades, was to preach ...
Villagers in a tiny mountain hamlet in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley saw a remarkable thing recently -- a group of women putting on skis.The men and children of Khoshak, tucked at the snow-covered foot of the Koh-e-Baba peaks, could hardly tear their eyes ...
The US pastor whose burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan has been briefly jailed in a heavily Islamic suburb after a court banned his protest outside a mosque.A local judge jailed pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, and his ...
The US pastor whose burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan has been briefly jailed in a heavily Islamic suburb after a court banned his protest outside a mosque.A local judge jailed pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, and his ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Enayatullah Balegh is a professor at Kabul University and preaches on Fridays in the largest mosque in central Kabul, where he advocates jihad, or holy war, against foreigners who desecrate Islam.After a fundamentalist U.S. pastor presided over the burning ...
Hundreds of Afghans staged a fresh protest in the Kabul on Thursday against the burning of a Koran by a US pastor, dragging demonstrations into a seventh day, police and witnesses said."There was a peaceful protest by about 300 people in front ...
The US pastor, whose burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan, has called for "immediate" US and UN action against its perpetrators, saying the whole religion of Islam must be held accountable."Islam is not a religion of peace," Dove World ...
An evangelical pastor whose church burned a Koran last month said he was "devastated" but did not feel responsible for the killings Friday of seven UN workers in a violent protest in Afghanistan."We are devastated by that information, that news," Terry Jones, ...
Canada on Friday condemned an attack on a UN office in Afghanistan and the killing of seven UN staff in a protest over the burning of a Koran by an American pastor."The government of Canada condemns in the strongest terms the violent ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - An American Christian preacher who caused an international uproar last year by threatening to burn the Koran has put himself back in the spotlight after incinerating Islam's holy book -- again with deadly consequences.Thousands of protesters in northern Afghanistan, ...
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