Man fatally stabs one, wounds three during Texas home church service
One man has died after he and three others were stabbed during a church service at a private home in Texas, police said Thursday. As many as 20 people were in the home Wednesday night when an apparent member of the congregation pulled a knife ...
Struggling Brussels church hops to it, hopes brew gets believers to belly up to the pews
A Brussels church that was nearly forced to close its doors for lack of parishioners has turned to the Belgian brewing tradition and launched a new beer in order to raise more funds for a now growing congregation. St. Catherine's Church, by the city's increasingly ...
Indonesian youth who tried to attack priest 'obsessed' with Islamic State leader
A knife-wielding Indonesian teen who tried to attack a priest during Sunday service was "obsessed" with extremist group Islamic State, a senior minister said Monday. Indonesian authorities are increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, driven in part by ...
French ID second church attacker; police had warning about him
French officials on Thursday identified the second man who attacked a Normandy church during morning Mass, saying he's a 19-year-old from eastern France who was spotted last month in Turkey as he supposedly headed to Syria — but who returned to France instead. The prosecutor's ...
Two attackers 'neutralized,' one hostage killed in France church attack
French police "neutralized" two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday, the police said. A police source said that one of the hostages had been killed with a blade in the attack which took ...
Chiba police free female hostage, arrest man after attack, standoff at church
Chiba Prefectural Police arrested a 36-year-old man Friday after he went on an injurious rampage and barricaded himself in a church with a hostage, a 51-year-old female counselor, in the town of Sakura. Special police forces stormed the church just before 5 a.m. Friday and ...
Calais migrant camp's place of worship razed after last prayer session
After allowing believers one last chance to pray, French authorities demolished a makeshift church and mosque Monday as part of a security operation at a camp in Calais populated by thousands of migrants. Authorities are trying to re-establish order in the long-lawless camp, and Monday's ...
Ditch the KFC and spend Christmas with JC
While a KFC bucket of wings and some strawberry cake may be a Japanese way to spend Christmas, there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy a more spiritual experience. Attending a Christmas mass or service can be especially comforting for those who are homesick, and ...
Accused in Charleston church massacre charged with federal hate crimes
The white man suspected of murdering nine black people during Bible study at a South Carolina church was charged on Wednesday with federal hate crimes, adding to multiple state counts that raise the possibility of a death sentence. "The parishioners had Bibles. Dylann Roof had ...
South Carolina shooting suspect ranted about blacks 'taking over the world'
Dylann Storm Roof recently reconnected with a childhood buddy he hadn't seen in five years and started railing about black people "taking over the world" and the need for something to be done for "the white race," the friend said Thursday. On Thursday, Roof, 21, ...
Charleston church aftermath: Republicans avoid talk of race, guns
Republican presidential candidates steered clear on Thursday of addressing the role gun rights and racial tensions may have played in a deadly mass shooting in South Carolina as Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton called for the United States to face what she called the ...
Charleston's storied 'Mother Emanuel' grieves loss of gifted pastor-politician
Two months before the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was gunned down during a Bible study at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, he stood before state lawmakers seamlessly blending his faith and politics in urging them to pass a law to protect his ...
