A 14-year old boy was killed and 5 others injured in Saturday’s knife attack in Villach, Austria. The attacker, a 23-year old Syrian asylum seeker was later detained at the scene of the attack. The man was radicalized with Islamic teachings online, with an IS flag reportedly found in his apartment. The injured have been admitted to the hospital, with 2 of them now in serious condition. Let’s Pray: Father Lord, we pray for the comfort of the parents and…

A lone gunman shot dead 10 students in Orebro, central Sweden, on Tuesday afternoon before finally killing himself. The shooting was at Campus Risbergska – a type of school for adults known as Komvux in Swedish, which is primarily for people who did not finish primary or secondary education. Police still have no clear established motive behind the crime and are largely attributing it to the mental health of the gunman. Let’s Pray: Father, we pray for Your peace and…

Last week, rebel group M23, took control of Goma in eastern Congo. The city of 2 million residents was swarmed by the rebel group composed of the minority Tutsis, who clashed with the DR Congo army and its allies in a lightning advance. Estimates put that at least 700 have died and 3000 more injured, with hospitals treating the injured now running short on medical staff. M23 is allegedly backed by the Rwandan government and has vowed to push forward…

An Iraqi man living in Sweden, Salwan Momika, 38, was shot in his apartment last night at 23:11 local time (CET) in Södertälje, Stockholm. He sadly passed away the next morning at the local hospital. He was known to have been granted permission by the Swedish police to burn the Islamic holy book, Quran, outside Stockholm central mosque in 2023 in protest against Islam. Five people have so far been arrested by the police in connection with this case. Let’s…

An American airlines passenger flight carrying 64 on-board and a black hawk military helicopter carrying 3 servicemen, collided mid-air last night over the Potomac river in Washington D.C. This is the first major aviation accident in America since 2009, which has one of the safest and advanced communication air-traffic control systems in the world. Investigations are on as to why the military helicopter was flying at that restricted height. 30 bodies have so far been recovered from the freezing river…

At least 30 people are said to have died and more than 60 injured in Uttar Pradesh, India, at the site of one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. The Kumbh Mela gatherings happen at the banks of the river Yamuna and Ganges, where Hindu devotees visit to take a “holy dip.” The event attracts more than 10 million people over the course of 6 days and this crowd swelling eventually resulted in the stampede of the visiting…

A man and a toddler were fatally stabbed in a park in Aschaffenburg, Germany, south-east of Frankfurt. The toddler, a 2-year old boy, was part of a kindergarten group taking a stroll through the park and the 41-year old man was killed when trying to intervene in the attack. The attacker, an 28-year old Afghan refugee-seeker who was to be deported after a failed asylum plea is now said to be under police custody. This attack is one of the…

At least 66 people so far have been reported to have died in an early morning blaze in a ski-resort in Bolu, Turkey. The fire is reported to have started on the 4th storey restaurant of the 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel, where in the ski-season was at full occupancy. Snow and poor accessibility to the location brought the fire-engines an hour after the reported fire and took them 12 hours to fully put-out the fires. Many people had to resort…

Colombia’s Catatumbo region, on the border with Venezuela, was attacked by a rebel group called National Liberation Army (ELN). This attack left 60 people dead, with more than 20 people kidnapped. This attack broke the truce between the guerrilla groups in this region, which have been negotiating peace with the Colombian government. The control of this region is critical to the cocaine trade which has long plagued these South American countries. Let’s Pray: Father Lord, we pray for the comfort…

Wildfires ignited by drought-like conditions in the western state of California, United States, has killed 11 people, displaced over 180,000 people from their homes and has destroyed an estimated 10,000 homes and other structures so far in its third-day. The initial damage is assessed to be over a whooping 150 billion dollars, with the figure only expected to rise further after the fires. The fires which are not yet fully contained have spread over 37,000 acres of land thus far…