The image of Harman Singh helping Daejon Pahia circulated around the world. The Herald finds out what's been happening to his life.

Church bestows message of hope, peace, joy and love.

Donald Trump has stepped up his war of words with British officials over what he calls the UK's "massive Muslim problem".

Can there be goodwill toward Islam? I believe there can be goodwill, but this will require us to look beyond the likes of Isis and al-Qaeda, writes Zain Ali.

BIG DEBATE: Dame Susan Devoy says she isn't the Grinch while Bishop Ross Bay warns of the dangers of expunging "Christmas" from migrants' vocabulary.

COMMENT: The Human Rights Commissioner is wasting time on trying to drop "Christmas" from our summer vocabulary., writes Brian Rudman.

The ARMS Trust is not doing away with Christmas, not banning Christmas, not rejecting Christianity, and not avoiding the word Christmas, writes Dr Mary Dawson.

A 2009 Gallup survey of European Muslims showed they are just as likely, if not more so, to identify with the country in which they live, than the rest of the population.

Just across the canal from the chic cafes a largely Muslim area that has become one of the world's main breeding grounds of violent Islamic extremists.

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'.

According to a Christian group, you shouldn't be reading this article as the world was to be engulfed and destroyed by a great fire on October 7.

Evolutionary biologist and writer Richard Dawkins says he suspects religion is "dying" in New Zealand and that's a good thing for science and education.

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.

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.

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

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.

This tragedy requires a humanitarian response - economic cost should not be the primary concern in our country's decision in how to act, writes Justin Duckworth, Anglican Bishop of Wellington.