An Auckland churchgoer who defrauded parishioners of $250,000, saying he needed money for cancer treatment, has been jailed.

A Christian school's Board of Trustees has been told to attend a human rights course after sacking a netball coach because he was gay.

Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab - the full Islamic veil.

For more than 200 million Muslims in Indonesia, Mecca just moved.

To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.

Church and state pomp abound in Ecuador's capital writes Jim Eagles.

Five years after the terror attacks on London's public transport system, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reflects on what's been learned.

At the peak of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis, the discipline plan American bishops adopted prompted dioceses to remove nearly all accused clergy from the priesthood.

'I once again express my deep sorrow and offer a sincere and unreserved apology to all victims of sexual abuse,' says Archbishop Denis Hart.