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Dad goes to watchdog over Bible class
A parent has taken concerns about religious teaching to the Human Rights Commission in the latest effort to remove the lessons from state school time.
A parent has taken concerns about religious teaching to the Human Rights Commission in the latest effort to remove the lessons from state school time.
The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France's ban on wearing a burqa or a niqab in public.
The sister of the 11-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed a classmate in the head with scissors has complained to the Ministry of Education about the school.
Kiwi league star and ex-All Black Sonny Bill Williams will play and train for the next month without food or water during daylight hours because of his religious beliefs.
A church which advertised that a prayer session could heal health problems including "incurable diseases" has been told to remove the advertisement.
Muslims in New Zealand will this year be fasting just 11 hours during Ramadan while their counterparts in the Northern Hemisphere will be going without food for over 20 hours.
When Andrew Hedge comes to the aid of the sick and dying, a look of calm crosses the patient's face.
Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican's financial watchdog - all Italians - in the latest move to break with a murky past under his predecessor.
Singing star Stan Walker weighed into a revved-up blessing of the Destiny Church's new headquarters in Auckland yesterday, blending showbiz with religion.
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.
The Anglican Church of New Zealand has instigated a move to allow clergy and parishes to opt into giving non-marriage "blessings" to same-sex couples.
An Anglican pastor has quit the church and is taking his congregation with him after the governing body moved ahead with plans to bless same-sex relationships.
Destiny Church is inviting Aucklanders to share in the official opening of its long-promised 'City of God' headquarters in Manukau this weekend.
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.
Last Monday I sat in Auckland Town Hall and watched people from 65 countries taking an oath that made them New Zealand citizens.
The man at the centre of a mosque battle in Auckland has allegedly been monitored by police for potential terrorist allegiances.
Employers find it okay to employ Buddhists and Hindus but are wary of hiring Muslims, an AUT study has found.
One thousand Christians have been forced from their place of worship in a city in eastern China after Communist Party officials decided their 10-storey mega-church was an eyesore that needed to be destroyed.
A mosque in Auckland has been shut down indefinitely following violent attacks and the declaration of jihad, or holy war, against private security staff.
A group of 26 Italian women who claim to be having affairs with Roman Catholic priests have written a joint letter to the Pope begging him to end the Catholic Church's ban on priests having sex and getting married.
Boko Haram is prepared to start releasing up to half of the kidnapped schoolgirls in the coming days after dropping demands for the release of top commanders in talks with the Nigerian government, sources close to the group have said.
Haider Lone, immediate past president of the NZ Muslim Association and administrator of the Avondale Islamic Centre, says he fears for his life as he believes the attack was an assassination attempt.
International outrage is growing after a heavily pregnant young woman was sentenced to death in Sudan for renouncing Islam and marrying a Christian man.
The Anglican Church has agreed to look at ways same-sex relationships can be part of church life, but will not marry gay couples.
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.