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Global Church News - Bangladesh says goodbye to Fr Homrich, a missionary of the Garo people Aug 18, 2016 The 88-year-old priest decided to return to the United States for health reasons and after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists. [1]
NEW DELHI -- The Sri Lankan government tied Sunday's deadly bombings at churches and hotels to a local Islamic extremist group, fueling fears that the country's fragile ethnic and religious balance could once again be at risk. [2]
In recent months, anti-Muslim violence has rocked many parts of Burma and has left dozens of people killed and thousands displaced, while thousands of homes were destroyed. [3]
MANDALAY — Mandalay police said on Friday that they have detained two suspects in relation with a bomb blast that occurred on Sunday near a building where ultra-nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu was giving a sermon. [4]
JAKARTA -- Indonesian police believe that the terrorists responsible for Thursday's attack on the capital, which left seven dead, are affiliated with the Islamic State extremist group. [5]
The landscape of violent extremist Islamism is changing in Asia. Al-Qaida, once a growing and potent threat, particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is now a shadow of its former self. (confirmed by 2 sources) [6]
TOKYO -- Japan will help Central Asian countries tighten their border controls to prevent terrorists and weapons from neighboring Afghanistan, a hotbed of Islamic extremist activity, from slipping through. [7]
DHAKA -- Suspected Islamic extremists killed an estimated 20 foreigners, most of them believed to be from Japan and Italy, in a restaurant siege regarded as one of the most extreme terrorist attacks seen in the Bangladeshi capital. [8]
Global Church News - Bangladesh says goodbye to Fr Homrich, a missionary of the Garo people Aug 18, 2016 The 88-year-old priest decided to return to the United States for health reasons and after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists.
NEW DELHI -- The Sri Lankan government tied Sunday's deadly bombings at churches and hotels to a local Islamic extremist group, fueling fears that the country's fragile ethnic and religious balance could once again be at risk.
In recent months, anti-Muslim violence has rocked many parts of Burma and has left dozens of people killed and thousands displaced, while thousands of homes were destroyed.
MANDALAY — Mandalay police said on Friday that they have detained two suspects in relation with a bomb blast that occurred on Sunday near a building where ultra-nationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu was giving a sermon.
JAKARTA -- Indonesian police believe that the terrorists responsible for Thursday's attack on the capital, which left seven dead, are affiliated with the Islamic State extremist group.
The landscape of violent extremist Islamism is changing in Asia. Al-Qaida, once a growing and potent threat, particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is now a shadow of its former self.
TOKYO -- Japan will help Central Asian countries tighten their border controls to prevent terrorists and weapons from neighboring Afghanistan, a hotbed of Islamic extremist activity, from slipping through.
DHAKA -- Suspected Islamic extremists killed an estimated 20 foreigners, most of them believed to be from Japan and Italy, in a restaurant siege regarded as one of the most extreme terrorist attacks seen in the Bangladeshi capital.
BEIJING -- China’s top legislative body on Saturday passed a law to strengthen the country's land borders amid rising tensions with India over disputed territory and concerns over a possible influx of Islamic extremists from Afghanistan.
In 2014, Russo-U.S. ties soured, the extremist Islamic State group turned terrorism uglier, and Ebola killed thousands and frightened millions. These and other threats appeared quickly and sent ripples far and wide.