There is a dissonance between the reality of modern war and the high ideals by which war is justified, writes Chris Barfoot. These ideals form a deadly combination.

As a young woman growing up in Auckland in the 60s and 70s, Maria Hall dreamed of "boys, of love and marriage, and of living on a houseboat".

Prime Minister John Key has rejected claims that New Zealand's spy agencies are overstating national security risks to "justify their existence".

Clergymen attempting to prove claims that a skull found in a Worcestershire church vault is that of William Shakespeare have been thwarted by a senior church lawyer who has barred them from carrying....

Donna Miles-Mojab asks, if you agree that the choice to cover less does not lead to liberty, then why assume that the choice to cover up more leads to oppression?

A church has extradited one of their members after discovering his decision to 'embrace the homosexual lifestyle'.

A Christian group who predicted that the world was going to be destroyed by a great fire on October 7 had the unenviable task of explaining what happened.

Kiwi, Amina Hall who became part of Islam faith says being the subject of verbal attacks had opened her eyes and encourages kiwis to be open minded.

SUVs with men-in-suits-and-dark-glasses standing in their open doors, a truck full of police with machine gun carrying men in fatigues inside, and then finally more men in suits running ahead of the Popemobile, writes Richard McLachlan.

The pope's entourage is about 100 people, which makes it less of a flock and more of a herd.

Jihadists are defecting from Isis after their "Islamist utopia" of luxury cars and "heroism" never materialised.

When Pope Francis celebrates the first open-air mass of his visit to Cuba today, the ghost of Che Guevara will be looming over him.

A rare astrological event next week could herald the end of days, according to some Christian groups.

Destiny School's bid to become state-integrated was rejected because the proposed syllabus was too small and the cost of conversion too high, education papers reveal.

Not one student at Gloriavale school has gone beyond Year 11 in the past three years sparking fresh calls for an investigation.

The Islam Open Day held at Aotea Square in central Auckland yesterday aimed to allow people to discover the world of Islam from different perspectives.

At least 107 pilgrims have been killed overnight and 238 injured when a construction crane crashed through the roof of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca.

On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City.

An appeal has been launched to restore the historic St Patrick's Catholic Presbytery in Auckland's central city.

The clandestine programme represents a significant escalation of the CIA's involvement in the war in Syria, enlisting the agency's powerful Counterterrorism Centre.

Presbyterian congregations are defying the church's national ban on performing same-sex weddings.

Thailand's junta is under scrutiny after mistakenly showing an unrelated picture of a suicide vest during a nationally televised broadcast announcing the arrest of a foreign man in connection with....

When the Westboro Baptist Church protested outside a Foo Fighters concert recently, Dave Grohl and the band responded with a Rickroll.

Whatever it is that we believe, we are all in this together and we need all the tools and networks that we can get, writes Sam Judd.

Yoga has become one of the most fashionable practices in the world. Yet a number of myths have grown up around it. Andrea Jain debunks five of the biggest.

Green Party's education spokeswoman has entered into a war of words with the Christian community over how young people there are being taught.

A new documentary on Gloriavale has revealed more about what it's like to live in the West Coast community - and how its residents react when someone walks out.

A fake Facebook profile set up in the birth name of Gloriavale leader Hopeful Christian has reportedly been used to proposition a Greymouth woman.