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- Pope Francis says it's 'terrible to make money from death' talking about arms tradePope Francis has again denounced the global arms industry, saying it is "terrible to make money from death."
- Global church communicators tackle AI in assessing their workCommunicators who worked for the World Council of Churches Assembly in 2022 met online recently and discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on their work, asserting that if they work hard, AI's obstacles can be countered.
- Knife attack in Australian church, treated as terrorism, stirs intercultural tensionsAustralian police said a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person, and in the church, which triggered a riot, was an act of terrorism.
- Muslim extremists burn down Christian homes in southern Egypt ahead of Coptic EasterHouses belonging to local Christians were set on fire late on April 23 in Egypt's southern Minya province, the most recent of similar acts of sectarian violence against the country's religious minority.
- Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh fear Christian religious heritage is endangeredArmenians remembered the 1915 genocide on April 24, but many are concerned about their heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been held by Azerbaijan since November 2020.
- Indian government 'freezes bank accounts' of church in Kerala over fisherfolks' port project protestsThe archdiocese of the Latin Catholic Church in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram says the Indian Union government has frozen its bank accounts after fishermen protested a project by the Adani port group in Vizhinjam.
- World churches group prays for abducted archbishops of Aleppo held for 11 yearsThe World Council of Churches. in its morning prayers on April 22, focused on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, solemnly marking the 11th anniversary of the abduction of archbishops of Aleppo
- Rabbi urges Jewish students to leave Colombia campus, warns that school, NYPD cannot guarantee safetyThe Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College in New York, has sent a message recommending Jewish students leave campus and go home, as anti-Israel agitators have continued an "encampment" on campus, but not all Jewish groups agree with him.
- India's elections kick off with calls to stop violence against Christians and those from other minority religionsIndia goes to the polls on April 19 for its massive endeavor involving nearly a billion voters to elect a new government amid growing concerns about the rising persecution of Christians.
- Pope Francis warns against a 'much bigger war' after Iranian attack on IsraelPope Francis has made "a heartfelt appeal" to "stop every action that could stoke the spiral of violence and risk dragging the Middle East into a much bigger war conflict" on the morning after Iran's attack on Israel.