The faith, resilience and patriotism of the Romanovs offers an example to all modern Russians, participants were told at a conference in Moscow, held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the killing of Russia's royal family.

The descendants of Russia's last emperor, officials from Moscow and other regions of Russia, Orthodox clerics and historians came to the State Kremlin Palace on Thursday for the annual readings, dedicated to Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and other members of the Russian royal family, who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

The murder of the Romanovs "is a sad event for us but, actually, it evokes a lot of things - the deeds that those people achieved; about how firm their faith was and about how bravely they acted in any circumstances, and preserved their Christian faith," the Tver and Kashin Metropolitan Savva told the gathering.

The royal family are "a role model for us all. We all should love our Fatherland, maintain and strengthen our faith" like they did, the Metropolitan urged, adding that more general knowledge of the royal martyrs should be expanded and promoted among the population.

A political debate at a synagogue in Brooklyn was canceled amid security concerns after anti-Semitic slurs were discovered scrawled on the walls of the building's stairwell including, "Jews Better Be Ready."

"Broad City" star Ilana Glazer was scheduled to interview journalist Amy Goodman and New York state senate candidates Andrew Gounardes and Jim Gaughran to discuss how politicians actually serve the local community. However, before the event opened its door, anti-Semitic messages were discovered on the stairwell of Union Temple in Brooklyn Heights at approximately 8pm Thursday.

The words "Die Jew Rats We Are Here," "Jews Better Be Ready,""Rose" and "Hitler," were discovered on the second and fourth floors of the temple, NBC New York reports.

"She didn't feel comfortable ushering 200 people into the enclosed space; potential sitting ducks,"attendee Kathryn Gonzalez posted on Facebook.

One month after my release from detention, house arrest and prison that went on, including all of its phases, for three years, during which I have lived through the suffering of imprisonment and detention that is different than any other type of suffering that I have personally experienced. Yet, despite the cruelty of this experience that is full of events, especially those related to female prisoners, and as I write these words, I have left 51 female prisoners behind the bars, each of whom holds a story, a novel per se, that must be talked about, we must dig out the painful reality that each one of them lives through, at both the HaSharon and Damon prison, and the reasons that brought them to prison and detention.

I was detained and released from prison, and prison has become past today. It is true that my body was freed and released and is no longer imprisoned, but my thoughts are still tied to everything I lived through there with the female prisoners and I cannot be released of until my last breath, as they live with me through all of my moments even the ones (moments) away from life in detention. I now remember them in every detail of my life impulsively and unintentionally, everything reminds me of them and takes me back to prison and life there, to the point that I live in constant worry for them, their circumstances and conditions. In fact, I am incapable of freeing my memory of their suffering, that is why I decided to keep up with the female prisoners' news and write about everything happening with them, to try to satisfy my conscience and my promise to them that I will never forget them nor leave them alone suffering behind the bars and in the absence.

With the news of the renewal of parliament member Khalida Jarrar's administrative detention for the fourth time in a row for an additional three-month period, I would like to highlight on the suffering of female prisoners in both prisons in which the female prisoners are held, as this is the most important issue to me currently, especially as female prisoners in the HaSharon and Damon prison who suffer greatly of several issues that would not cross your minds.

Germany should show asylum seekers it has "no tolerance" for sexual assaults, the government's integration commissioner said, as she called for targeted sex education for refugees, in the wake of a high-profile rape case.

"All asylum seekers should get guidance courses about life in Germany immediately after their arrival to Germany when they are still at the primary reception centers," Annette Widmann-Mauz, the federal government's Commissioner for Integration and a member of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said. The courses, which should particularly include "comprehensive sex education," are aimed at making it clear that "there is no tolerance for sexual abuse and other violent crimes" in Germany, she added.

As part of the courses, men with immigrant backgrounds who "have already lived long" in Germany should "make it clear to the new arrivals" how the situation with sexuality and equality between men and women in Germany looks like, Widmann-Mauz explained, adding that such issues should be discussed "in the native language" of the asylum seekers "if necessary."

The integration commissioner also expressed her support for the violence prevention programs that intentionally recruit their staff from among men, including those with migrant backgrounds.

A Catholic priest said Friday that he has been punished by church leaders in France after he gathered more than 100,000 signatures for a petition calling for a cardinal to resign over his handling of child sexual abuse cases.

The Rev. Pierre Vignon said he learned in an email Thursday that he would no longer be considered for the church court where he has served as a judge since 2002.

In a phone interview, Vignon said the decision showed church leaders are of two minds about how to deal with sex predators within the Catholic clergy.

"They say, 'We want to do everything,' but to whistleblowers, 'We want to shut you up,'" Vignon said.

The lawsuit claims the migrant's Fifth Amendment due process rights would be violated.The suit comes on the heels of President Trump's Thursday immigration speech where he vowed to stop the migrant caravans from entering the U.S..

Twelve migrants traveling on foot from Honduras to the United States filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday.

The lawsuit claims the migrant's Fifth Amendment due process rights would be violated and that the president cannot utilize the military to stop asylum-seekers from entering the country when they have a fair claim. It also criticizes President Trump for stoking "fear and hysteria" with his claim that gang members have joined the migrant caravan.

Germany may be Europe's biggest and strongest economy and is enjoying record employment, but one fifth of its citizens are struggling to make ends meet, a new study reveals.

Some 15.5 million people or 19 percent of the population in Germany were "at risk of poverty" or "social exclusion" in 2017, the Federal Statistics Office said.

Even though the unemployment rate in Germany has fallen to record lows, many people still do not earn enough to pay their bills and keep themselves above the poverty line. Some 13.1 million Germans, roughly 16.1 percent of the population, are threatened by poverty precisely because of their low monthly income, the federal statistics bureau says.

The Satanic Temple is set to sue Netflix over the portrayal of devil-worshippers in the witchy series 'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.' The show features an 'unholy' statue which real Satanists claim is subject to copyright.

'The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' is a darker, closer-to-the-bone reboot of the late 1990s sitcom 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch.' Far from the goofy magicians of the earlier series, the witches in the new show are full-on devil worshippers, who perform blood rites and eat human flesh - and praise Satan at every opportunity.

It's that devil worship that has got the actual, real-world Satanic Temple riled up. In particular, they have objected to the use of the iconic Baphomet statue by the fictional witches.

China is still reeling from a tragic incident in which a bus swerved off a bridge, plummeting 60 meters into the icy waters of the Yangtze river, killing all 15 people on board but now shocking footage has revealed the cause.

"Fifteen lives were lost in an instant - the lessons from this are very painful," police said as cited by Channel News Asia.

Originally, witnesses reported seeing the bus swerve to avoid another vehicle but distressing new footage has emerged showing the real cause of the accident: a fist fight between an irate passenger and the driver.

The vehicle's black box recorder captured the fight in which a 48-year-old woman attacked the bus driver after she missed her stop and he refused to let her off on the bridge in Chongqing, Southwestern China at approximately 10am local time Sunday.

At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in an attack on a bus transporting Coptic Christians to a monastery in Minya, Egypt, a local archbishop told Reuters.

Heavy gunfire reportedly broke out as a bus carrying Coptic Christian pilgrims was on its way to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor.

A graphic video purportedly showing the aftermath of the attack has been circulating on social media.

A similar attack occurred in 2017, when masked gunmen opened fire on a bus convoy carrying Copts to the same monastery, killing 28 people and injuring 22.