Two young couples who quit the Gloriavale Christian Community have revealed what it was like living in the West Coast religious community.

Two families who defied their Gloriavale leaders to leave will tell their story to the nation on the television news show Sunday.

Hundreds of earthworms that were lifted by upcurrents of wind appeared to "rain down" on Norway this week.

Left-wing intellectuals who accused the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo of going too far by publishing drawings of the Prophet Mohammad are guilty of "disgusting paternalism".

The proliferation of "beautiful young vampires" in TV series and Hollywood films including True Blood and the Twilight movies is encouraging young people to dabble with occult forces.

A small religious group with a pre-existing objection to vaccination is the only group exempted from the new "no jab no pay" rule in Australia.

New Zealand is one of only three countries in the world where the non-religious are expected to outnumber the religious by 2050, according to new research.

We have had rather a feast of eclipses recently, and there is more to come. Physicist Dr Jeff Tallon explains.

NZ's an increasingly secular country, writes Brian Rudman. The 2013 Census recorded 41.9 per cent of us as having no religion.

All Hallows Methodist Church in Campbells Bay sits on prime land, just 200m from Campbells Bay beach.

Islamic State militants in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa have threatened to jail any young man wearing skinny jeans, smoking or with music on his mobile phone.

Auckland’s church leaders explain why Easter is a time when hope for eternal life emerges from despair.

The charm of St Patrick’s Cathedral’s Monsignor Bernard Kiely melts folk like Easter bunnies left out in the sun, Michele Hewitson discovers.

Hundreds of millions of Christians throughout the world will tonight begin their annual celebration of the events of the holiest and most sacred period in the Christian calendar, the first Easter -....

One of the most watched YouTube clips this year is from Gay Byrne's interview with Stephen Fry for an Irish TV series, The Meaning of Life.

A South Auckland Church Minister who ripped off thousands of taxpayers' dollars has been sentenced to nearly a year in home detention.

It’s the film the Church of Scientology would rather you didn’t see.

I first met Reverend Harold Good eight years ago in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Spare a thought for our Prime Minister. The price of "club" membership is to take New Zealand into a war not of our making, training troops who were once our enemy.

77: Father James Joseph McMenamin served selflessly and paid the ultimate sacrifice as a Catholic chaplain to the Armed Forces in the Great War.

Destiny Church's bid to make its private school part of the state system has failed. The church says the rejection is disappointing as its case was compelling and valid.

New Zealanders need to be more understanding of religion, an expert says, after a Kiwi was jailed yesterday for insulting Buddha in Myanmar.

Forgive me for not being my usual liberal self when I read that a group of local Sikhs are getting over-excited about not being allowed carry ceremonial daggers.

Labour's ethnic communities spokesman Phil Goff is calling for the Government to clarify where and when Sikhs can wear a kirpan.

A New Zealander jailed for insulting religion in Myanmar says he will appeal against his conviction.

The HRC has received a complaint of alleged unlawful discrimination on the grounds of religion on the wearing of kirpan at Cricket World Cup venues.