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Death sentence to audience with Pope
A Sudanese Christian woman spared a death sentence for apostasy after an international outcry, met Pope Francis in the Vatican today.
A Sudanese Christian woman spared a death sentence for apostasy after an international outcry, met Pope Francis in the Vatican today.
It was at the corner of Wehada St that the missile hit Mohammed Shaaban's car - and almost certainly propelled Israel's phoney war with Hamas into an all-out conflict.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis (Islamic State), has emerged from the shadows to lead prayers at Mosul's Great Mosque.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State stretching across Iraq and Syria, has promised to lead the conquest of Rome.
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France's ban on wearing a burqa or a niqab in public.
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis) has declared the areas it occupies in Iraq and Syria as a new Islamic state.
Sheikh Murshid Omar sits on a modest sofa in a room adjoined to the mosque his words echo through each week. He says that Islam is tolerance.
Amid bad news from Iraq, we must remember most of Islam's faithful are ordinary people living ordinary lives.
The success of ISIS militants nor the swiftness of their advance through Iraq shouldn't come as a big surprise - the seeds were sown as soon as Saddam was toppled.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that the country is ready to assist Iraq in its battle against extremist Sunni Islamists.
Islamic militants have captured Iraq's northern capital, Mosul, in a devastating defeat for the Iraqi Government, whose forces fled the city, discarding weapons and uniforms.
Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death in Sudan after she married a Christian man, is to be freed, a Sudanese foreign ministry official has said.
A prominent Saudi cleric has sparked outrage by saying that online conversations between men and women are religiously forbidden.
Nigeria's president has been sent a new video of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in which they beg him to spare their lives through a prisoner swap.
The Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for refusing to renounce Christianity has given birth to a baby girl named Maya, her lawyers said yesterday.
The right-hand man of a Muslim leader at the centre of an Auckland mosque row has been charged with threatening to kill.
A girl who spent several months last year as a hostage of Boko Haram has told how she was ordered to fight alongside the Islamists in ambushes on the Nigerian military.
The father of one of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram has spoken of the "other worldly" moment when he saw his daughter's face on the hostage video released by the group.
A Salafist imam who taught two men who were stopped from leaving New Zealand to join the war in Syria says he is no terrorist.
A Muslim imam accused of teaching "extreme Islam" has been barred for a second time from his Auckland mosque sparking a row between worshippers.
Islamist military group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of 300 Nigerian schoolgirls. But who is in this group, and what do they really want?
Nigerian troops were reported to be massing for an assault to try to free hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by a militant Islamist group.
Parents of 230 girls abducted from their boarding school by Nigerian Islamists have had to call off the search for their daughters because of a lack of police back-up.
Evidence of a plot by Malaysian Islamists to hijack a passenger jet in a terrorist attack copying 9/11 was being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Flight MH370.
A booklet aimed at addressing family violence in ethnic communities has been launched by the Government today.
'I lead this double life because I still have to make a living.' Five women tell the Herald about their lives and challenges they face being Muslim in NZ.
'I'm a soldier..I couldn't do anything else.' A man accused of killing a British soldier in a frenzied knife attack in London has defended his actions.