Israel & the Middle East

2+ hour, 6+ min ago   (413+ words) Srinagar, Oct 10: The Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board has decided to constitute a core committee of religious scholars to finalise common themes for Friday sermons across mosques, shrines and other religious institutions under its administration, aiming to promote coordinated religious…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (108+ words) Kashmir Reader Waqf Board to form core committee for common Friday sermon topics Bring Imams across sects together to strengthen faith, reform society: Chairperson Dr Andrabi Srinagar, Oct 10: The Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board, under the chairmanship of Dr Syed…...

3+ hour, 54+ min ago   (683+ words) At 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, 27 September / 10 October 2026, the Funeral Service of the late Archimandrite Ioustinos, Hegumen of Jacob’s Well, was held at the place of his abbacy. The Funeral Service was presided over by His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem…...

11+ hour, 27+ min ago   (227+ words) The Executive Committee of the Kalush City Council has issued a favorable opinion on the statute of a new OCU structure, to which the authorities plan to transfer the St. Nicholas Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The head of…...

4+ hour, 31+ min ago   (377+ words) Hundreds of thousands of people joined coordinated pro-Palestine marches worldwide on Saturday to condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and stand with Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid in the occupied West Bank. The Global Alliance for Palestine said the mobilisation…...

5+ hour, 56+ min ago   (294+ words) US Vice-President JD Vance has said he would not watch the proposed livestream of the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009. Reuters reported on Friday, October 9, 2026, that…...

5+ hour, 39+ min ago   (658+ words) “In Israel, no one talks about a peace process anymore.” Then there is Gaza, where humanitarian conditions “have not improved. On the contrary, the population is increasingly worn down and exhausted.” Exhaustion and weariness also appear to be defining features…...

8+ hour, 5+ min ago   (411+ words) IQNA – The Austrian capital of Vienna will host a conference titled “Religious Identity and Global Identity: Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue” on October 16, 2026. It comes at a time when the world faces mounting challenges regarding identity, cultural and religious coexistence, migration,…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (626+ words) I have heard this language before. Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood before American service members and proclaimed that American deterrence is back. He celebrated the supposed restoration of the “warrior ethos.” After boasting about American military operations from…...

21+ hour, 10+ min ago   (205+ words) Vice President JD Vance is casting doubt about whether the Pentagon will livestream the firing-squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter in December. He told reporters Friday that he wouldn’t watch it and, “I don’t know that…...