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Pope Francis urged young people in Bahrain Sunday not to be bystanders or “tourists of life” but rather to commit themselves and take risks.

Pope Francis on Friday denounced the “childlike scenario” taking place in Ukraine, where leaders play “with fire, missiles, and bombs.”

Pope Francis began his 3-day trip to Bahrain Thursday by praising the nation’s ethnic and cultural diversity and its high level of immigration.

Pope Francis took advantage of his visit to Bahrain Thursday to tout an upcoming United Nations climate conference in Egypt.

Pope Francis said Tuesday that he looks forward to interreligious dialogue with representatives of Islam in his upcoming trip to Bahrain.

Gulf state Bahrain has joined other Middle Eastern countries in imposing a cinema ban on the fourth instalment of superhero saga Thor, a Hollywood blockbuster featuring gay characters.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Police investigating suspected doping by the Tour de France team Bahrain Victorious seized more than 450 capsules of unidentified substances at a house in Slovenia during raids across Europe, the European agency Eurojust said Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday flew to Bahrain in what would be the the first-ever official visit by an Israeli leader to the country.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz landed in Bahrain on Wednesday afternoon to meet with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and other senior officials, The Times of Israel reported.

The Bahrain Health Ministry announced Tuesday it will begin administering doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine “Coronavac,” by the firm Sinovac Biotech, to children aged three to 11 years old this week.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrived in Bahrain on Thursday and met with Bahraini King Hamid bin Issa al Khalifa in the first official visit since the two countries normalized relations under the Trump-led Abraham Accords last year.

Bahraini leaders committed Thursday to partner with a new U.S. Navy task force to ramp up new unmanned systems for maritime operations, the Navy said on Wednesday.

On a visit to Israel, a top Bahraini diplomat said the Obama-led 2015 Iran nuclear deal had done nothing but leave the region with more turmoil, violence, hatred and death.

Seven months after the Trump administration brokered a normalization deal between Morocco and Israel, the first direct commercial flights between the two countries launched on Sunday.

Bahrain health officials are encouraging a “booster” shot of Pfizer’s Chinese coronavirus vaccine for people who have already received a full dosage of the Chinese-made Sinopharm alternative, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday trumpeted results of a Phase III clinical trial on Sinopharm’s coronavirus vaccines, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), that found the Chinese company’s two leading products were over 70 percent effective.

Not one Arab country that signed peace and normalization agreements with Israel under the Abraham Accords has withdrawn those commitments.

Israel’s alleged attack on a nuclear facility in Iran was likely a reaction to Joe Biden’s policy towards Iran, Ellie Cohanim said.

The U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva voted Tuesday to call for an international arms embargo against Israel, with support from many European Union nations — while the Arab nation of Bahrain did not show up to vote.

Two U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East have been ordered into port as they combat outbreaks of COVID-19, the U.S. Navy said early Friday.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday indefinitely postponed planned visits this month to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain due to Israel’s ongoing coronavirus travel restrictions.

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said he was “addicted and intoxicated ” with what the Trump administration achieved for Israel in four years, and expressed his confidence the measures couldn’t be reversed by the Biden administration. “I’m frankly somewhere

Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, told reporters at a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Tuesday that his country and its allies will “fully set our differences aside” with Qatar, ending a virtual blockade that has endured for over three years.

A delegation from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain took part in a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday, in what was hailed by the holy site’s chief rabbi as a “Hanukkah miracle.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively last week in his office that President Donald Trump directly confronting radical Islamic terrorism made the United States and the world a much safer place.

Morocco became the fourth Arab state to reach a peace deal with Israel this year, as news broke Thursday that the Kingdom would sign an agreement establishing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

President Donald Trump attended a Hanukkah celebration at the White House on Wednesday, where he said he would still win the 2020 election.

New peace deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain send a message to Iran that its influence in the region is waning, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, an Islamist who has spearheaded a campaign demanding global laws against blasphemy, said in a recent interview that President Donald Trump is placing “extraordinary” pressure on his country to recognize the state of Israel.

Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates will seek Hezbollah’s designation as a terrorist group by countries that have not yet done so as well as the United Nations, a senior Israeli official told Israeli daily Israel Hayom Thursday.

Officials in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain expressed their hope for a Trump victory in the upcoming election, calling on moderate American Muslims to cast their votes for him, and warning that a Biden win could stop further peace deals in the region, an Israeli daily reported.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisor and former Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein said in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan shatter existing myths from the left that peace can only be achieved through “painful and dangerous” concessions on Israel’s part.

In 1967, Arab states declared in Khartoum, Sudan: “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.”

With recent successful Middle East peace deals brokered by the Trump administration exposing years of failed Democrat policies, former Secretary of State John Kerry sought to claim his part in making the epic deals a reality.

Landing in Bahrain late Sunday to formalize the newly signed, U.S-brokered normalization deal with Israel, the head of an Israeli delegation said in Arabic that Israel “extends its hands for genuine peace with the Bahraini people.”

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed Thursday night at a town hall in Philadelphia that President Donald Trump “embraces all the thugs in the world.”