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World
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6/13/2025 3:00:33 PM
Israeli forces have sealed off Palestinian cities across the occupied West Bank and forcibly cleared worshippers from Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, hours after launching pre-dawn airstrikes on Iranian targets.
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World
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International
4/21/2025 10:11:55 AM
Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday, aged 88, just a day after greeting delighted worshippers after Easter Mass.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/13/2025 12:25:30 PM
Israeli authorities prevented Palestinian Christian worshippers from the West Bank from entering occupied Jerusalem on Sunday to take part in the Palm Sunday service, marking the beginning of Holy Week leading up to Easter.
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World
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Africa
9/18/2024 10:42:49 AM
Armed jihadist groups in Burkina Faso have stepped up their attacks on civilians in recent months, "massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshippers", Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
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World
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International
4/30/2024 12:34:16 PM
A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan, opening fire and killing six people as they were praying, a Taliban official said Tuesday. Local media reports and a former president of Afghanistan said the mosque was targeted because it was a place of worship for members of the country’s Shia Muslim minority.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
3/5/2024 9:59:40 PM
Israel will allow as many Muslim worshippers to access Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the first week of Ramadan as in previous years, the prime minister's office said Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
2/25/2024 9:01:35 PM
At least 15 civilians were killed and two others injured during a "terrorist" attack on a Catholic church during Sunday mass in northern Burkina Faso, a senior church official said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/9/2024 11:42:23 AM
A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Tuesday in an annual procession in the Philippines' capital, carrying a centuries-old black statue of Jesus. Many said they were praying for peace in the Middle East, where tens of thousands of Filipinos work, as fears rise of a spread of the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its fourth month.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/18/2023 6:09:24 PM
Israel's military is showing "an appalling lack of distinction" in its targeting in Gaza, the EU's top diplomat said Monday, highlighting the deaths of Israeli hostages, worshippers and other Palestinian civilians.
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World
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Region
8/31/2023 10:16:07 AM
Israeli police on Wednesday shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who stabbed a man in a Jerusalem light-rail station, officials said, while Palestinian militants detonated a bomb near a convoy of Israeli troops escorting Jewish worshippers to a holy site in the occupied West Bank, wounding four Israeli troops.
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Antiquities
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Islamic
8/14/2023 12:03:34 PM
After almost three years of restoration, the Al-Aqmar Mosque on Al-Muizz Street in Historic Cairo, opened its doors to worshippers and visitors on Sunday.
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World
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Region
6/30/2023 3:01:40 PM
Tens of thousands of Muslims streamed out of Islam's holiest city on Friday after completing the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia's scorching summer heat, an AFP correspondent said.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
6/28/2023 12:31:38 PM
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World
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Region
6/25/2023 10:21:40 AM
Braving the scorching Saudi heat, Mecca resident Amer Abdullah distributed free tea and bread to worshippers performing the annual hajj pilgrimage, honouring a long-standing tradition in Islam's holiest city.
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World
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Region
6/23/2023 4:04:21 PM
Enormous crowds of worshippers thronged Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Friday for the biggest hajj pilgrimage in years, with more than two million expected to brave the scorching Saudi Arabian heat.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
5/16/2023 11:49:47 PM
The visit by Pope Tawadros II to the Vatican and the exchange of gifts with Pope Francis assert the amicable relationship between the Coptic and Catholic churches, reports Amira Hisham
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/14/2023 10:58:46 PM
Christian worshippers were attacked in a Khartoum-area Coptic church during mass on Sunday, both warring sides claimed, blaming each other for the attack.
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World
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Region
4/15/2023 7:19:38 PM
Israeli forces on Saturday beat Christian worshippers heading toward the Church of the Holy Sepulchre amid growing restrictions on the freedom of religion in Jerusalem, a video circulated by Sky News Arabia showed.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/11/2023 4:25:23 PM
A number of Egyptian MPs have called for breaking diplomatic ties with Israel following its “barbaric” attacks on Palestinians worshippers in Jerusalem and deadly airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
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World
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Region
4/9/2023 5:29:26 PM
Thousands of worshippers held tense celebrations in Jerusalem on Sunday, as Christian Easter coincided with Jewish Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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