A 61-year-old church minister was killed on Christmas Eve when two 4WD vehicles collided and rolled in Napier.

Constable Jeremy Snow didn't want to go to work the night that he was shot, his stepmother says.

Auckland church leaders offer their thoughts for this Christmas.

The divine origin of Jesus' birth is a cornerstone of Christian faith and not up for revision, says Garth George.

The funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the eminent cleric and champion of reform, turned into a mass protest in Iran yesterday as the vast crowd chanted slogans against the government and clashed on the streets with security.

An Anglican priest has decided not to press charges against a woman who slashed a controversial billboard outside his church.

Mary MacKillop is set to become Australia's first saint after Pope Benedict XVI approved her second miracle.

An Auckland church decides to take down its Xmas billboard of Joseph and Mary in bed after an elderly woman slashed it with a knife.

A paint-bomb attack on a controversial Christmas billboard will not stop the church from continuing its campaign, church leaders say.

A cosmopolitan club that refused entry to a turbaned Sikh concedes the club's name stands for inclusion of all races, but says it has a strict no hat rule.

St Matthew-in-the-City Church's mischievous biblical bedroom billboard was defaced just over five hours after it was erected in downtown Auckland today.

A billboard put up outside the St Matthew-in-the-City church in Auckland is set to stir more than a bit of Christmas spirit.

National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi is threatening to take a south Auckland club to the Human Rights Commission over its headwear ban.

Photographer Greg Bowker joins the lavish celebrations of the Hindu god, Ganesh, in the Bay of Bengal.