The £4 million development of the Church of the Epiphany, which will not have a spire or free-standing cross, will begin early next year on land donated by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
The Most Rev Clive Handford, the Nicosia-based Anglican Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf,

"It is a positive development, it will help people affected by the earthquake on both sides," said political analyst Hasan Askari. "It will also improve the goodwill between the two countries and Kashmiris on both sides."
India and Pakistan agreed late Saturday to an unprecedented opening of the he

Unidentified assailants attacked a group of girls from a private Christian school in the tense province of Central Sulawesi, beheading three and seriously wounding another. Police said that one of the heads was left in front of a new Christian church and the others near a police station.
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The world has one last chance to give cash for Pakistan`s quake victims or else the United Nations will have to stop its vital helicopter flights and scale down food deliveries, aid officials said.
"We need the cash to keep the helicopters flying," UN humanitarian coordinator for

BALAKOT, Oct 29 (APP): Saif-ul-Islam Al-Gaddafi, Chairman of Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Association and son of Libyan Leader, Colonel Muamar Al-Gaddafi laid the foundation stone of a model village here on Saturday.
The Libyan dignitary is currently on a three-day visit to Pakistan

in the earthquake-afflicted areas of NWFP and Azad Jammu and Kashmir in view of severe cold in the region, officials said Friday.
They discussed this week's Geneva conference in the context of international response to Pakistan's worst natural disaster and also exchanged views on the next month's d

Secretary to the Bishop of Siloam Biblical Christian Churches of Pakistan called on the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Shuakat Aziz at Prime Minster's House, Islamabad. Bishop Nasir expressed "Mutual Condolence" to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Shuakat Aziz. Bishop Nasir told the Prime Ministe

NAPLES, Fla. (Oct. 24) - Hurricane Wilma crashed ashore early Monday as a strong Category 3 storm, battering southwest Florida with 125 mph winds and pounding waves as it began a dash across the peninsula.
The storm flooded low-lying areas and knocked out power to more than 300,000 homes and busine

"President Karzai has arrived," Pakistani foreign office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said on Monday.
His office in Kabul said he had brought five tonnes (tons) of medicine and a 30-strong medical team to Islamabad, as well as his foreign, defence and health ministers.
Karzai was expected to discuss r

Hours after the 4.9-magnitude tremors, US Central Command chief General John Abizaid toured devastated areas of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and promised more US military assistance in the relief effort.
His visit came ahead of a meeting of aid donors in Geneva on Wednesday where the United St

"At the moment, the emphasis is on the need for road engineers. If we can open the roads, that would solve everything," World Food Programme spokeswoman Mia Turner said.
"We're thinking more than 2,000 villages have to be reached and they have to be reached by roads," she said two weeks after the s

United Nations aid official was so incensed by what he saw as a woefully inadequate international response to the most difficult relief operation the world has ever seen he called on NATO to stage a massive airlift to get survivors to safety.
That would mean helicopters, the only means of gett

The new numbers come as two strong aftershocks jolted the devastated region, unleashing landslides and setting off another wave of panic among survivors who lost loved ones and homes in the Oct. 8 disaster.
Asif Iqbal Daudzai, information minister for Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, said

The effort to feed and shelter more than three million people made homeless 10 days ago was also marred by a row between Pakistan and rival India, which turned down a request for helicopters without crews for relief operations.
As choppers soared into blue skies and trucks and mules shifted supplie

ISLAMABAD. President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday said Pakistan requires massive financial assistance from the international community in carrying out rehabilitation and reconstruction in the earthquake-afflicted areas.
"We require colossal finances for reconstruction efforts, we need intern