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Islamic State

Emergency services attend the scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans’ Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday Jan. 1, 2025. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.)

Archbishop of New Orleans prays for victims of terrorist attack in Louisiana

Jan 1
Crux Staff

Children gather in a classroom at school in the village of Dori, Burkina Faso, Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020. More than half of the displaced by growing violence between Islamic extremists and security forces are children, and many are traumatized by their experiences. But mental health services in the West African country are limited, and children are often overlooked for treatment.(Credit: Sam Mednick/AP.)

Burkina Faso diocese holds day of prayer after nearly 200 people killed in Jihadist attack

Aug 29, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako greets parishioners after a Mass in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday April 12, 2024. (Credit: Ali Jabar/AP.)

10 years after ISIS invasion, Christians in Iraq given ‘sign of hope’

Jul 10, 2024
Charles Collins

A massive blaze is seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 22, 2024. (Credit: Sergei Vedyashkin/Moscow News Agency via AP.)

Catholic archbishop speaks of ‘horror and pain’ of terrorist attack in Moscow

Mar 23, 2024
Charles Collins

Egyptian Christians in Libya face ‘toxic mix of racism and religious hostility’

Feb 23, 2023
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Mozambique’s jihadis spread into most populous province

Sep 13, 2022
Alexandre Nhampossa

Paris trial of 4 in priest’s IS-claimed murder begins

Feb 14, 2022
Nicolas Vaux-Montagny

France’s Macron visits Iraqi church in Mosul damaged by ISIS

Aug 29, 2021
Hadi Mizban,
Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Islamic State group says it’s behind Congo suicide bombing

Jun 30, 2021
Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro

Police arrest 11 suspected militants in Indonesia’s Papua

May 31, 2021
Niniek Karmini