Sources: BBC
The Notre-Dame cathedral in Île de la Cité, Paris, France, reopens and holds its first public mass five years after a structural fire damaged the building and destroyed its spire. French President Emmanuel Macron and dozens of world leaders attend the reopening ceremony. 2024-12-8
The regional office of the leftist Unidas Podemos party in Cartagena, Murcia, is firebombed, leaving damage to its exterior. 2021-04-2
Islamist gunmen kill at least 24 people, including a pastor, in a mass shooting on a church during mass in Pansi, Yagha Province, Sahel Region, Burkina Faso. 2020-02-16
Gunmen burn down a Catholic church during mass and kill six people, including a priest, in Dablo, Burkina Faso. 2019-05-12
Pope Francis pleads for peace in a Christmas Mass in the Vatican. 2016-12-25
2011 Lorca earthquake: At least ten people are killed and dozens injured in the Spanish city of Lorca following a 5.3 magnitude earthquake. 2011-05-11
At least 4 people are wounded at the entrance of a Catholic church after Easter Mass in Baghdad. 2011-04-24
Pope Benedict XVI blesses Easter Mass in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City, calling for diplomacy and dialogue to bring ongoing events in Libya to a peaceful conclusion. 2011-04-24
At least 6 people are wounded as a bomb detonates in a church during Christmas Mass in the southern Philippines island of Jolo. 2010-12-25
As many as half a million pilgrims from 35 nations, including India, China and Vietnam, attend open-air Mass at Fátima, Portugal, celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope criticises abortion and same-sex marriage in a speech. 2010-05-13