James Macintyre
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Muslim Peer Baroness Warsi says she hopes Islamic face veil will disappear from Britain in next 20 years
Sayeeda Warsi, the British Muslim politician and former chair of the Conservative party, has said she hopes that the Islamic face veil will disappear from the UK within 20 years.
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Evangelical church members accused of trying to beat 'homosexual demons' out of former member 'to go on trial'
Members of an evangelical and supposedly Christian sect accused of trying to beat 'homosexual demons' out of a now former member could be about to go on trial, according to reports.
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Priest abducted by Islamists appears in video appealing for Philippines to stop military offensive
The priest taken hostage last week along with around a dozen parishioners by Islamist militants in the Philippines hasappeared in a video appealing for the government to halt military offensives in the troubled city of Marawi.
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Israel does not have a 'blank cheque' from Trump's US administration, says PM
Despite the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's apparently close relationship with Donald Trump, he told agroup of his MPs yesterday that Israel does not have a 'blank cheque' from America.
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Family pelted with stones by youths shouting 'Jews', police under fire for 'appalling' response
Police have come under fire for their handling of an incident over the bank holiday weekend in which a family on a trip to the Kent seaside were pelted with stones by a mob of racist youths shouting 'Jews'.
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Marawi Q&A: Is Jihad coming to the Philippines, and how are Christians being affected?
Violence erupted last Tuesday after a failed army raid to capture a top militant, Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf militant group who is on a US terror watch list and has also pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group.
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New York Catholic missionary doctor based in Sudan praised by George Clooney as he wins $1m prize
A Catholic missionary doctor from New York has won an esteemed international prize for his work around the clock inwar-torn Sudan.
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Muslims help restore church in Mosul after it was devastated in battle with ISIS
Muslim neighbours helped to restore a church in Mosul which was left ruined after Kurdish and allied forces pushed Islamic State (ISIS) out of the Iraqi district.
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WATCH: Obama says he is 'heartbroken' by Manchester attack in video with Justin Welby and Angela Merkel
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has been joined in a video message by Barack Obama and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel who expressed their sympathies for the victims of the Manchester attack.
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Nine Christians 'shot dead' by Islamist militants in Philippines as chaos descends on city after church kidnappings
Nine Christian civilians have reportedly been shot dead after being forced off their truck and having their hands tied together by Islamist militants in Marawi City in the Philippines.
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'We can't hide behind a wall': Obama addresses huge crowd of Protestant Christians in Germany
Barack Obama has addressed tens of thousands of Protestant Christians in Germany, defending his liberal record and saying: 'In this new world we live in, we can't isolate ourselves - we can't hide behind a wall.'
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How Donald Trump's divisive Budget is provoking a Christian backlash â and affecting the poorest in the US and abroad
Criticisms of the Budget, including from faith leaders and communities in the US, are fascinating because they act as a microcosm of Trump's growing domestic problem: the question of how his reforms are affecting his own voters, including white evangelicals, on the ground in America.