Mr and Mrs Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough painted ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, oil on canvas, (27...
The painting was commissioned to celebrate the marriage of Robert Andrews and his bride, Frances Mary, which took place in 1748...
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ArchiveAnti-tobacco team visits church to create awareness
ISLAMABAD: A team of ‘Tobacco Smoke Free Capital’ visited Saint Thomas Church in Sector G-7/2 on Sunday to create awareness among people against the hazards of using tobacco...
Deputy Director General (Health) and Project Director Dr Minhajus Siraj, while talking to Dawn, said over 600 people participated in the services held in the church...
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WorldAt least 26 killed in shooting at Texas church: US media
A black-clad gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire on a small-town Texas church during Sunday morning services, killing 26 people and wounding 20 in the latest mass shooting to shock the United States...
The victims, who ranged in age from five to 72, were gunned down at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a rural community of about 400 people located 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio...
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World1 killed, 7 wounded as gunman opens fire at Nashville church in US
A masked gunman opened fire at a Nashville church in Tennessee on Sunday, walking silently down the aisle as he shot unsuspecting congregants...
The FBI said on Sunday night it has opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ...
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ArchiveFamily dispute suspected in Texas church shooting
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS: A family dispute may have sparked the rampage by a US Air Force veteran who killed 26 people with an assault rifle in a small-town church, the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history, officials said...
Ten people remained in critical condition a day after Devin Patrick Kelley, a 26-year-old private security guard, burst into the rural Baptist church during Sunday morning services and sprayed bullets at the...
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ArchiveIndian police investigate latest attack on church
AGRA: Vandals who attacked a northern Indian church wrapped a dog chain around the neck of a Virgin Mary statue, police said on Thursday, in the latest assault on Christian places of worship in Hindu-majority India...
Police said several statues were damaged and their glass cases broken inside the grounds of St Mary’s church in the overnight attack in the tourist city of Agra, home to the famed Taj Mahal...
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ArchiveMosque-inside-church exhibit shut down
MILAN: Venice officials have ordered the closure of a working mosque in an ex-church, set up as Iceland’s exhibit for the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair...
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Archive69 jailed for life for torching church in Egypt
CAIRO Egypt jailed 69 Islamists for life on Wednesday for torching a church near Cairo in August 2013 during a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, a judicial official said...
The Coptic church was set on fire and a police station was attacked when violence erupted in the town of Kerdasa on Aug 14 that year, after hundreds of Morsi supporters died in a crackdown on two protest camps in the capital the same day......
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Pakistan545 booked under ATA for vandalising church
LAHORE: Police registered a case on Monday under anti-terrorism act against the people who had vandalized a church in Basti Dhoop Sarri in Sanda and wounded several policemen deployed there to protect it on Sunday night...
“Some 500-600 people have been booked under terrorism charges for vandalising the church, damaging public and private property and injuring 10 policemen,” Iqbal Town SP (Investigation) Ijaz Shafi Dogar told Dawn... ...
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ArchiveBid to sell Karak church land foiled
KARAK: The members of local Christian community claimed here on Tuesday to have foiled a bid to sell the land of a church situated in Karak city...
Faryad Masih, a representative of local Christians, told journalists that two persons impersonating as bishop and pope had come to the district to sell the land of local church...
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WorldSuspected gunman caught in US black church 'hate crime': media
The shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the southeastern US city was one of the worst attacks on a place of worship in the country in recent years, and comes at a time of lingering racial tensions...
Among the dead was the church's pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was also a Democratic state senator...
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ArchiveWhite gunman mows down nine in US church
CHARLESTON: A white gunman killed nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, the city’s police chief said on Thursday, describing the attack as a “hate crime”...
Eight victims were found dead in the church, Chief Gregory Mullen told reporters at a media conference, and a ninth person died after being taken to a hospital...
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ArchiveKnifeman attacks church guard in Alexandria
CAIRO: An Egyptian Muslim stabbed and wounded a security guard after being prevented from entering a church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Saturday, a senior police official said...
The militant Islamic State group has killed dozens of Coptic Christians in church bombings and shooting attacks in Egypt since December, and have threatened further attacks...
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ArchiveProtest against church land deal
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Members of the Christian community of Liaqatpur on Monday held a protest at DC Office Chowk against the alleged illegal purchase of church land in Liaqatpur by the municipal committee chairman and his brother...
They alleged that Liaqatpur Municipal Committee Chairman Rashid Rafiq Chaudhry and his brother Zahid Rafiq Chaudhry, a councillor, in connivance with the priests had purchased the church land which could not be...
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ArchiveEgypt under emergency rule after church attacks
Sunday’s first bombing at the Mar Girgis church in Tanta city north of Cairo killed 28 people, the health ministry said...
The second struck outside Saint Mark’s church in Alexandria, killing 17 people after a suicide bomber was prevented from entering the building...
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