Throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, churches, monasteries, mosques, synagogues, prayer houses, cemeteries, and religious schools have been damaged or destroyed.
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Mark Temnycky,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
In Morocco, Zein learned the game playing on the streets of Tetouan, a city known for being the former Spanish Protectorate’s capital and whose city is lined with mosques and churches with Andalusian architectural influences.
Priceless artifacts stolen from these temples would then end up in the hands of unscrupulous antiquities dealers.
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Will Croxton,
CBS News,
28 June 2026
After stints as a buyer at some of London’s leading style temples, Bateman was tapped by entrepreneur Natalie Massenet to help launch a menswear counterpart to her women’s e-commerce juggernaut, Net-a-Porter.
Throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, churches, monasteries, mosques, synagogues, prayer houses, cemeteries, and religious schools have been damaged or destroyed.
—
Mark Temnycky,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
There are a number of Jewish schools and synagogues in the area, including the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, the oldest congregation in the country, established in 1768 and which moved to the neighborhood in 1947.
On June 3, the Bahraini government banned its citizens from travelling to Iran and Iraq, home to some of the most important shrines in Shiite Islam.
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semafor.com,
semafor.com,
25 June 2026
The central story was the overwhelming evidence indicating that Russia’s attack on one of Christianity’s greatest shrines during its military assault on Kyiv was a war crime.
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