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  • May 1, 2018
    Journalists among victims of Kabul explosions

    According to information obtained by Reporters Without Borders, at least nine journalists were killed and six others were badly injured in a double suicide bombing in Kabul on 30 April 2018, in which the second explosion deliberately targeted reporters.

  • December 19, 2017
    WCC condemns attack on church in Pakistan

    World Council of Churches General Secretary, the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has condemned an attack at a church in Pakistan that killed at least eight people and injured dozens of others. Tveit expressed sorrow for the lives lost in the suicide bomb and gun attack.

  • January 23, 2015
    On not calling murdered children 'suicide bombers'

    When children are murdered, let us call each child by name and name what has been done to her in the name of some cause she will never know or understand. To call a murdered child a suicide bomber is to violate her all over again, says Professor Tina Beattie, in the wake of Boko Haram's deadliest yet attacks in northern Nigeria.

  • October 25, 2013
    Two atrocities: how long can a piece of thread be?

    Towards the end of last month, on a Sunday of all days too, I woke up to be confronted with deeply distressing images of the ongoing and violent standoff at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi (Kenya) and also of the horrid attack on All Saints’ Church in Peshawar (Pakistan).

  • February 20, 2009
    Learning about suicide bombers in schools
  • July 21, 2007
    Re-evangelizing the religion of death

    At the root of death-dealing religion and ideology is fear, says Simon Barrow. The biggest challenge we face today is how to challenge cultures of death from within, replacing the logic of the sword with an invitation to life.