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• Holy fire: What is the Christian festival of Pentecost?

  This Sunday will mark the Christian festival of Pentecost. What does it mean and why is it celebrated?

• Irish Evangelical Alliance Ireland urges 'No' vote in abortion referendum

  Evangelical Alliance Ireland has urged against the repeal of Ireland's eighth amendment ahead of the countries referendum on decriminalising abortion. In a statement the conservative Christian group said Ireland's eight amendment, which guarantees the equal right to life of mother and child, must be protected on the grounds of human rights equality.

• Digital nun blasts Vatican over instructions for nuns to use social media with 'sobriety'

  Pope Francis has issued stern instructions telling nuns to use social media apps 'with sobriety and discretion'.

• The 'right thing to do'? Guernsey debates assisted dying as California court rules against 2015 legalisation

  A judge in California has ruled that the state's assisted suicide law was wrongly passed in a special legislative session in 2015.

• Nigerian bishops call for protests over Fulani church attack

  Nigeria's Catholic bishops have called for peaceful processions on May 22 in solidarity with the funeral for two priests and 17 others killed in an attack by Fulani herdsmen on a parish church last month.

• 10 killed in attack on South Sudan Christian college

  At least 10 people have been killed in an attack on a Christian college in South Sudan, with the Sudan People's Liberation Army blamed for the attack.

• CAR archbishop condemns sectarian violence at service mourning church massacre

  The archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) has called for an end to retaliatory violence in an address to Christians mourning a church massacre two weeks ago.

• Hamas official claims 50 of the 62 killed in Gaza were its activists

  Fifty of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during Monday's deadly protests on the Gaza border were Hamas activists, a senior Hamas official claimed yesterday.

• Lebanese are descendants of the ancient Canaanites in Bible, study finds

  The modern-day Lebanese are descendants of the ancient, biblical Canaanites, a new genetic study has found.

• Royal wedding: Prince George to be page boy and Princess Charlotte bridesmaid

  Princess Charlotte and Prince George are among the bridesmaids and page boys for Saturday's royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

• 'Darkness can always be broken by the light of Christ': Coptic bishop hails return of bodies of 20 Christian martyrs beheaded by ISIS

  The lead coptic bishop in the UK has hailed the 'bittersweet' return of the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians beheaded in Libya by ISIS in 2015 to their families.

• Pope Francis orders Chilean bishops to spend 24 hours in prayer ahead of meetings over abuse crisis

  Chilean bishops summoned to the Vatican to discuss the abuse crisis have spent 24 hours in retreat at the request of Pope Francis, praying and reflecting on specific themes, ahead of their meeting with the pope today.