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

INTERACTIVE: New report shows Muslims will outnumber Christians around the world by 2100 and that atheists and agnostics will outnumber Christians in NZ by 2050.

John Travolta has spoken out to defend Scientology in the wake of a controversial documentary but admits he did not watch the film and has no intention of ever seeing it.

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.

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

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

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 -....

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

A priest has been slammed for telling primary school children that a woman who was raped and murdered would still be alive if she had been more “faith filled”.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for democracy in Africa yesterday as Nigerians resolutely cast their votes amid shootings by Islamist militants and technical glitches.

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.

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.

Seven Sikh cricket fans were barred from entering Eden Park to watch India play Zimbabwe in a Cricket World Cup match on Saturday because they were wearing kirpans.

The freedom to pop out for a pizza is the main thing Pope Francis misses two years after being elected the head of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

The daughter of Gloriavale leader Neville Cooper, who walked out of the commune after 41 years, says the latest family to leave face a hard road.

Gloriavale Christian Community has responded to accusations they were living in a "false system", by saying that "no one is here against their will".

All Black Keven Mealamu's famous cauliflower ears feature on the giant egg he's painted for the ultimate Easter egg hunt, which starts today.

75: It was late in the day before New Zealand appointed war artists to document the conflict.

A family of 14 have walked out on a West Coast religious commune to start a new life after concluding they had been living in a “false system”.

Two grieving Dunedin mothers are heartbroken after "scumbags" targeted mementoes on their children's graves.