As an official said on Wednesday, The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s influential Islamist opposition movement, will launch its own social networking site next month to promote moderate Islam.read more »

25 August, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, held a ceremony posthumously honoring a Polish woman, Teodora Olszewska, and her children Anna, Kazimierz and Józefa as Righteous Among the Nations.read more »

Lithuanian Jews condemned an apparent neo-Nazi attack. A pig’s head was left at the entrance of a synagogue by unknown perpetrators. read more »

On Sunday, India’s Christians will mark a day to remember their martyrs, especially those that were killed recently in Orissa.read more »

A statement from Middle East Quartet issued by European Union in Brussels informed that Israelis and Palestinians have been invited to start direct talks in Washington on September 2. read more »

Around 150 heads of Jewish communities from around the world will gather 31 August in Jerusalem for a two-day meeting of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Governing Board.read more »

August 24 has been set up by Pakistani bishops as a day of prayer for victims of flooding in their nation. The day is part of a two-pronged approach by the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’.read more »

With the withdrawal of its soldiers, The United States has a duty to leave behind peace, not chaos, said an Iraqi bishop. read more »

August 13, a Jewish human rights organization, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, criticized Israeli President Shimon Peres who paid tribute to Romania for "rescuing 400,000 Jews" during World War II.read more »

Two Christian evangelists were free Sunday, August 15, after a court in Tanzania acquitted them of “illegal preaching”. read more »

As the Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani stressed on Sunday, August 15, the sanctions of UN Security Council and the West’s unilateral boycotts against Iran can never deter Tehran’s progress in "the different fields." read more »

The website “HoloCartoon” claims to offer a historical narrative of events occurring before, during and after World War II. read more »

Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, offering his best wishes for Muslims’ observance of Ramadan, expressed hopes that Ramadan would be "a privileged time of prayer and conversion, a time for growth in virtue."read more »

Pakistanian church charities are getting ready for humanitarian aid to the nation, as it faces the worst flood in its history. read more »

On Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 passed away in Israel Teresa Tucholska-Körner, one of the children saved by Irena Sendler during the Second World War.read more »

More than 10 people have been killed after Israeli commandos stormed a convoy of ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army says.read more »

Two leading Italian supermarket chains decided to stop importing and selling produce from an Israeli company located in the West Bank.read more »

The Israeli military has partially opened a motorway that runs through the occupied West Bank to Palestinian drivers, to comply with a ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court. For Israelis, the highway is a major link between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.read more »

Pakistan has blocked access to Facebook, YouTube and numerous other Internet sites, condemning them for "growing sacrilegious content." The bans are fuelling a debate over Islam and freedom of speech.read more »

On May 10 Iranian authorities executed five prisoners accused of "carrying out terrorist acts", according to reports. The five were understood to be members of a Kurdish rebel group, the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK), the Washington Post reported. The four men and a woman were hanged at Evin prison in Tehran.read more »

The body of Polish President Lech Kaczynski is to lie in state in the capital Warsaw as the nation mourns the victims of the Smolensk air crash. He and 95 others, including many top defence officials and public figures, died when their jet crashed en route to memorial service in Katyn, massacre site in Russia.read more »

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a visit to the US where he was to attend a summit on nuclear security, Israeli officials say. He made the decision after learning that Egypt and Turkey intended to raise the issue of Israel’s presumed nuclear arsenal, the officials said.read more »

Serbia’s parliament has passed a landmark resolution apologising for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre – Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II. The motion, approved by a narrow majority, says Serbia should have done more to prevent the tragedy. It stopped short of calling the Bosnian war killings a genocide.read more »

The Vatican has attacked the media over charges that the Pope failed to act against a US priest accused of abusing up to 200 deaf boys two decades ago. A Vatican newspaper editorial said the claims were an "ignoble" attack on the Pope and that there was no "cover-up". The head of the UK Catholic church said the Pope had made important changes to the way abuse was dealt with.read more »

Pope Benedict XVI apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland.
In a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics, he acknowledged the sense of betrayal in the Church felt by victims and their families.read more »

The Israeli prime minister says his policy on Jerusalem will not change – a sign that a row with the US over settlement building remains unresolved.read more »

Pope Benedict XVI is meeting Germany’s top bishop for talks amid a crisis over sexual abuse of children by priests in his native country.read more »

Israel ordered the army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours until midnight on Saturday. The decision boosted UN criticism of Israeli policy in the region.read more »

Hundreds of thousands of pro-government Iranians rallied Thursday to mark 31st anniversary of Iran’s revolution. President Ahmadinejad used the occasion to attack the West and said Iran had produced its first stock of 20% enriched uranium. The opposition tried to stage counter-demonstrations, but faced a big security crackdown.read more »

Before the Islamic Revolution anniversary (11 Feb.), Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei threatens to "punch the arrogance [i.e. Western powers] in a way that will leave them stunned." Opposition leaders are planning counterdemonstrations. And above all this, real nuclear crisis is imminent.read more »