Church

By Jamal Fulani | Assalam | 15 Feb 2013

On Wednesday, February 13, Dagestani journalists met with Custodian and Door-Keeper of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is located in Jerusalem. His name is Wajeeh Yacoub Nuseibeh and he is accompanied by his wife Wafa and daughter Nour Nuseibeh.

Source : Sami Aboudi | Reuters
CAIRO | 26 May 2011

Mohammed Fathi worked his brush gently over an icon, removing soot from its surface inside a church gutted in an attack by hard-liners this month.

“It takes a lot of careful work to do that,” Fathi said. “We have to do a lot of tests with chemicals to try to restore the icon to its original condition.”

The 26-year-old is one of a vast group of mostly Muslim craftsmen tasked with restoring St. Mary’s Church in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba after militants set it on fire on May 7.

Source : Eric Kelsey | Reuters
BERLIN | 07 Apr 2011

Some 180,000 Germans left the Catholic Church in 2010, a 40 percent jump over the previous year, as allegations that priests sexually abused children for decades shook the faith, a study said on Thursday.

The number of parishioners quitting the Church surpassed the total of those leaving main Protestant churches for the first time in postwar Germany, the study by the magazine Christ & Welt said. Departures from Protestant churces were stable.