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Man who faked cancer jailed for two years
An Auckland churchgoer who defrauded parishioners of $250,000, saying he needed money for cancer treatment, has been jailed.
Gay netball coach sacked by school
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 bans full face veils at universities
Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab - the full Islamic veil.
Indonesia's Muslims miss Mecca (by about 1,500 miles)
For more than 200 million Muslims in Indonesia, Mecca just moved.
Gays defy traditionalists with Warsaw march
To anyone who pictures Warsaw as a cold, grey, conservative city, yesterday offered an antidote.
Quito: Incan roots but Our Lady rules
Church and state pomp abound in Ecuador's capital writes Jim Eagles.
Church forces 'secular NZ' retreat
The Human Rights Commission has bowed to Catholic Church objections to a statement that NZ was a secular state and religion was only for the "private sphere".
London's 7/7 bombings: The aftermath of tragedy
Five years after the terror attacks on London's public transport system, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reflects on what's been learned.
Dioceses oust abusers they had pledged to monitor
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.