Christians Under Attack

Moscow’s most wanted Islamist militant Doku Umarov warned that Russia would be the target of a newly strengthened insurgency in a video posted on an Islamist affiliated website on Monday.

(Reuters) - Russia's top security official said on Monday that authorities had averted a "large terrorist attack" in the Moscow area by militants armed with homemade bombs and other weapons.

The Moscow airport bomb blast killed a Ukrainian dramatist and poet, Anna Yablonskaya, who was on her way to get a prize for her play The Pagans.

A local resident burst into a police station in the town of Oktyabrsky in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan and stabbed two police officers with a knife.

Three churches were set ablaze on Monday in Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus region where Moscow is trying to tame a spreading Islamist insurgency. Two Russian Orthodox churches and one Baptist Church were set alight in the

Monument to Evgeny Rodionov, a soldier who perished in Chechen Republic in the 1990s has been set up in his native town of Kuznetsk in Penza Region

Moscow - Muslims in Moscow may be forced to pray in Orthodox churches because of a lack of mosques, though they would prefer not arrive at such an "extreme" decision. The warning comes from

In an upsurge of militancy in Russia's Muslim dominated Caucasus, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a central market in Vladikavkaz, the capital of of North Ossetia, killing 15 people and wounding more than 100

Pastor Artur Suleimanov, 49, was shot by unidentified gunmen recently while leaving Hosanna Christian Church in Dagestan on July 15.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife

Dagestan’s largest Pentecostal church is now prohibited from conducting social projects with even drug addicts and convicts.