Italian ambassador killed in Congo remembered for humanitarian work
- Feb 23, 2021
A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State group extremists in Syria.
A group of young Muslim men gathered to stand guard outside their town’s cathedral for the All Saints’ holiday weekend, to symbolically protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers.
French bishops conducted a “penitential rite of reparation” inside a church in which three people were murdered in late October.
Churches around France held Sunday services honoring three people killed in an Islamic extremist attack at Notre Dame Basilica in the city of Nice that pushed the country into high security alert, while police questioned six suspects in the case.
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad said Friday he is disgusted because his comments on attacks by Muslim extremists in France had been taken out of context.
A man was captured on surveillance video tackling a deacon who was conducting a Saturday evening service at a Florida church.