A shrine to Saint Mary of The Cross MacKillop was unveiled in Auckland yesterday.

Mary MacKillop, who died more than 100 years ago, had strong ties to New Zealand.

Mary MacKillop (1842-1909) is set to become Australia's first saint.

As violence recedes, many people wantto have contentious murals removed from everyday life.

A US man who travelled to NZ to spread the word of God - and whom Brian Tamaki called his 'spiritual father' - is accused of sexually assaulting young men.

Michele Hewitson speaks to the man at the helm of Auckland's most traditional private school for boys, King's College.

Garth George writes that the bigot who plans to burn the Koran shows that religious leaders of any faith can be serving Satan.

Advertising posters depicting the Pope as a paedophile and Prophet Muhammad as a suicide bomber have been ripped down.

An Auckland churchgoer who defrauded parishioners of $250,000, saying he needed money for cancer treatment, has been jailed.

A Christian school's Board of Trustees has been told to attend a human rights course after sacking a netball coach because he was gay.

Church and state pomp abound in Ecuador's capital writes Jim Eagles.

The Human Rights Commission has bowed to Catholic Church objections to a statement that NZ was a secular state and religion was only for the "private sphere".