Iraqi security officials said Youssef Adel, a priest with Saint Peter`s Church, was killed by gunmen travelling in a car around noon (0900 GMT).
A medical official said Adel`s body had been brought to Ibn Nafis hospital in central Baghdad.
The Assyrian church has maintained its independence since

A question-and-answer session with Imam Abdul Makin in an East London mosque asks why Allah would tell Muslims to kill and rape innocent non-Muslims, including their wives and daughters, according to Islam Watch.
"Because non-Muslims are never innocent, they are guilty of denying Allah and his prop

representing Christian in parliament because Christians in National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies are selected and imposed by Muslim political.
Nazir Bhatti said "I have directed Pakistan Christian Congress Coordination Council leaders to file reference against any selected Christian member of

Riyadh: March 29, 2008.No churches should be permitted in Saudi Arabia, unless Pope Benedict XVI recognised the prophet Mohammed, according to a Middle East expert.
While Saudi mediators are working with the Vatican on negotiations to allow places of religious worship, some experts believe it will

The film juxtaposes graphic images of Islamist terrorism -- including bombings and beheadings -- with verses from the Koran, footage of Muslim clerics endorsing violence, and newspaper headlines dealing with various aspects of radical Islam.
In recent months reports on the planned film, entitled Fi

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, a senior official from the party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, made the call for a rethink in policy when Bush telephoned him on Tuesday to congratulate him on taking office.
His comments came after former premier Nawaz Sharif told two US envoys on Tu

"These accusations are totally unfounded," the chief Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told Reuters, in response to an audio recording by bin Laden which was posted on the Internet to coincide with the birthday of the founder of Islam.
Italian security officials were examining the new bin La

Singh was to be hanged on April 1 following his conviction on charges of involvement in terrorist activities.
The Commission said: HRCP is as a matter of principle opposed to the award of the death penalty. While the death penalty continues to be awarded, it has have always argued in favour of len

Islamabad: March 17, 2007. (Report by Jawad Mazhar of ROD): Members of National Assembly as well as members of all four provincial assemblies has sworn in today.
The inaugural session of national assembly was convened at Islamabad, whereas inaugural sessions of the Provincial assemblies of Punjab,

Reuters reported "she was leaving India because of failing health after being forced to live in a secret hideaway without any visitors for nearly four months, Violent protests by Muslim groups in November forced Indian authorities to rush out the controversial writer from her home in Kolkata where s

BAGHDAD: March 13, 2008. (AFP) A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped last month in northern Iraq was found dead on Thursday, an Iraqi official said.
"Yes, we found his body," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf told AFP.
He was reacting to a report from Rome that t

While the bereaved Christian families of Pakistan were still mourning for their relatives and loved ones, who had died in Twin Suicide bomb attacks, in Lahore, the capital of Punjab Province.
Zahid Masih 27 was hanged to death at 6:00am at Central Jail Multan, as scheduled. Many church, Para-chur

also included genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, causing social injustice, causing poverty and becoming obscenely wealthy on his list of mortal sins, The Telegraph reported Monday.
Girotti said the sins of yesteryear -- sloth, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath and pride, hav

Mr. Bhatti said "We had six seats in National Assembly of Pakistan in 1973, which were reduced to 4 in 1985, but it is strange that in 2008, we have only 3 seats, while we had 2 seats in Sindh Assembly which is also reduced to only one"
"The seats of Hindus have be increased under pressure of India

that afflicts the Holy Land and Iraq, and Israeli and Palestinian political authorities must have the courage to move forward along the path of dialogue, to establish peace. The Middle East appeared once again today in the words of Benedict XVI, who to the 40,000 faithful present in Saint Peter`s s