May 30, 2016 Egypt leader: Christian woman's attackers will face justice Egypt's president has vowed that those responsible for stripping an elderly Christian woman and parading her naked on the streets will be brought to justice.
May 30, 2016 Roadside bomb in Egypt's Sinai kills 2 police Egypt's state news agency says a roadside bomb has killed two police and wounded three conscripts in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula.
May 29, 2016 Saudi Arabia slams Iran's role in Iraq as 'unacceptable' Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says Iran must stop meddling in Iraq and that the presence of Iranian military units there is "unacceptable." His comments Sunday come as thousands of Iraqi Shiite militiamen, soldiers and police, backed by Iran, surround the Sunni city of Fallujah ahead of an operation to retake it from the Islamic State group.
May 29, 2016 Pope rules out retiring like his predecessor Pope Francis says he has no intention of quitting the papacy — a possibility opened up by his predecessor Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.
May 28, 2016 Putin visits Orthodox monastic community at Mount Athos Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, on a visit to the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic community here.
May 28, 2016 Catholic priest says Colombia rebels free Spanish journalist A Roman Catholic priest says the National Liberation Army has freed a Spanish journalist who went missing a week ago in a lawless region of Colombia.
May 27, 2016 Muslim mob attacks, torches Christian homes in Egyptian province A Muslim mob ransacked and torched seven Christian homes in a province south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after rumors spread that a Christian man had an affair with a Muslim woman, according to a statement by the local Orthodox Coptic church.
May 27, 2016 Putin heads to Greece for business, Orthodox Christian site Russia's president is travelling to financially struggling Greece for a visit that will include a trip to a secluded, male-only Christian Orthodox sanctuary in the country's north.
