Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Coptic Church of Saint Paul and Saint Peter in the town of Shebin el Kom, 60 kilometers northwest of Cairo, was burnt on 9/8/2009,

Indonesia's home affairs minister Mardiyanto says the government will ask the Supreme Court to review a new Islamic law which condemns adulterers to death by stoning in the province of Aceh.

The Counter-Terrorism Bureau at the National Security Council issued a severe terror warning for India on Thursday.

A "secret annex" to a report by the international nuclear energy watchdog says Iran is currently able to build a nuclear bomb, according to the Associated Press. Meanwhile, Russia and America spar over a meeting with Iran to negotiate the issue.

An Egyptian court sentenced two Egyptian-American couples on Thursday to two years in prison in a high profile illegal adoption case, a court source said.

A Moroccan man is facing murder charges after allegedly stabbing his 18-year-old daughter to death for falling in love with an older man in a small northern Italian town. Sanaa Dafani was stabbed in the throat while she was sitting in a car with her 31-year-old boyfriend in Montereale Valcellina, northwest of Trieste, late Tuesday.

A call by a Moroccan group to allow people to eat and drink in public during the month of Ramadan has infuriated Muslim scholars and stirred the government into action.

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it is "concerned by some of the conclusions” in the United Nations Human Rights Council report, which strongly condemned Israel for alleged "war crimes" in the Operation Cast Lead campaign against Hamas terror last January.

The Palestinian Authority is reaching out to Jerusalem Arabs with a string of gifts aimed at raising political support in Israel's capital city.

Fanish, 20, was arrested last Saturday. His death was “judicial murder” according to human rights activist. The day before a Muslim mob attacked members of the dead man’s Christian community, setting fire to their church. Pakistani extremists are funded by Saudi “charities