Muslim Christian Clashes

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  Christian-Muslim Clashes Rock Easter Attacks Town In Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic Church appealed for calm and an alcohol ban Monday after clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town scarred by the Easter suicide attacks.

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  British Woman Fatally Stabbed In Jerusalem

  A Palestinian man fatally stabbed a British woman on Jerusalem's transit network on Friday, Israeli police said, as Christians marked Good Friday and Muslims held prayers at respective holy sites nearby.

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  Muhammadu Buhari Launches Probe After 'Hundreds' Killed In Central Nigeria: Officials

  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is launching a probe after week-long clashes between Muslim herdsmen and Christian farmers left "hundreds" dead, officials said today.

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  Anti-Muslim Group Picks A Fight In British Muslim Neighborhood, And Gets One

  It's a video that depicts just the sort of civilizational clash that extremists everywhere crave: Christians walking down a central shopping street in Britain. Muslim storekeepers and passerby hurling verbal abuse. A push. More abuse from both sides. And finally, police intervening to keep the warring clans apart.

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  The Long History Of Muslims And Christians Killing People Together

  In 1683, a vast Ottoman army camped outside the gates of Vienna. For centuries thereafter, the siege and final decisive battle that took place would be cast as a defining moment in a clash of civilizations -- that time the forces of Islam were halted at the ramparts of Christendom.

• Violence in Central Africa Escalating Says French Minister

  Violence in the Central African Republic is becoming "more serious" as a political deadlock inflames tensions between rival Christians and Muslims, France's defence minister warned as he left for the war-torn country.

• Over 70 killed during clashes in Central Africa Republic town: official

  At least 70 people have been killed and dozens of houses torched in clashes between Muslim and Christian communities in a town in Central African Republic, a local police official said on Monday.

• Inter-religious violence kills three in Central African Republic's capital

  Clashes between Muslims and Christians in Central African Republic's capital killed at least three on Wednesday as angry residents threw grenades and torched homes, witnesses said.

• 20 killed in sectarian violence in Nigeria: aid worker

  At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria's Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker has told AFP.

• Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt

  Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday, in the latest sectarian violence in the most populous Arab state.

• Gunmen 'dressed as soldiers' kill 10 in Nigerian pub

  Gunmen said to be dressed as soldiers opened fire on a central Nigeria pub, killing 10 people in a region hit by waves of clashes between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups, authorities said Tuesday.

• Dozens arrested after Egypt's deadly clashes

  Dozens of "instigators of chaos" have been arrested after deadly clashes between angry Christians, Muslims and security forces that left 24 dead and at least 200 wounded, Egypt's official news agency reported on Monday.

• Cairo clashes: 24 killed after attack on church

  Flames lit up downtown Cairo, where massive clashes raged on Sunday, drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, Muslims and Egyptian security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the worst sectarian violence since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February. The military clamped a curfew on the area ...

• Christians and Muslims in fatal clash near Cairo

  Eleven people died in overnight fighting between Christians and Muslims in the suburbs of Cairo, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, in the deadliest unrest since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak last month. The clashes broke out during a protest by several hundred Christians over the burning of a church in the village of Soul last week and...