Reuters
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Cuba blinks on same-sex marriage constitution change
Evangelical churches, threatened to shoot down the entire constitutional revamp over that single issue in the referendum on the final version scheduled for early next year.
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Don't blame migrants for your problems, Pope Francis warns world leaders
Pope Francis on Tuesday condemned nationalist leaders who blame migrants for their countries' problems.
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Australia recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel's capital but won't move embassy just yet
Australia formally recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel's capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday.
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Pakistan furious at blacklisting by US for religious freedom violations
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Tuesday added mainly Muslim Pakistan to the US list of 'countries of particular concern'.
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French police hunt Strasbourg Christmas market attacker
France raised its security threat to the highest alert level, strengthened border controls and asked people around Strasbourg to stay put as police searched for the suspect.
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'They were all praying': 5 dead in Brazil cathedral shooting
Police identified the shooter as Euler Fernando Gandolfo, 49, a systems analyst with no criminal record.
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De-miners sound all-clear at marooned Jordan River baptism shrines
Israeli and foreign engineers sounded the all-clear on Sunday around three churches on the western bank of the Jordan River after mines that had marooned the shrines for decades were cleared.
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'Time has come': Chinese police detain prominent house church leaders
Police have detained dozens of churchgoers and leaders of one of China's most prominent Protestant house churches.
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Campaign for new Brexit referendum gathers pace
After losing the most contentious referendum in British history, James McGrory went for a drink in The Hope pub near London's medieval meat market. Amid butchers in bloodied coats, his dream of reversing Brexit seemed hopeless.
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Brazil's President-elect names evangelical pastor to head new ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights
Damares Alves, a lawyer, preacher and congressional aide, is a staunch opponent of legalizing abortion, which is allowed only in cases of rape, anencephaly or when the mother's life is in danger.
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Ukraine council to meet on December 15 to form independent church: president
A Ukrainian church council will meet on December 15 in order to create an independent Orthodox church and elect its leader, President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday.
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Pakistan's expulsion of 18 international aid agencies will hurt 11 million people, diplomats warn
Pakistan's expulsion of 18 international aid agencies will hurt 11 million aid recipients in a South Asian nation grappling with perilously low standards of education and healthcare, two Western diplomats said on Tuesday.