Ruth Gledhill

• Catholic schools to teach Judaism alongside Christianity for first time

  Recently the law was changed so that even faith schools must teach two religions at GCSE. At present, Catholic schools teach one faith, Catholic Christianity.

• Children of same-sex couples must be nameless and unbaptised, says Mormon church

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has updated its handbook to says children living in a same-sex household may not be blessed or baptised as babies.

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  War-time Pope secretly plotted to kill Hitler

  Mark Riebling in Church of Spies says Pope Pius XII ran a secret war against the Nazi regime and did not speak out against the crimes against Jews and others because he feared this would hamper his efforts to undermine national socialism.

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  WWE diva converts to Christianity, confesses to a life of sin

  Stunning wrestling diva Taryn Terrell has shared a dramatic knock-down testimony of conversion from life in the ring to life with Christ.

• The Pope is prepared for battle, says top Cardinal

  C9 Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras says reports of excessive spending and political maneuvering by officials of the Roman Curia confirmed the need to press ahead with overhaul of Vatican bureaucracy.

• Vatican leaks: two arrests, two new books

  Vatican police have summonsed for questioning a senior priest and a former employee on suspicion of leaking confidential documents which are the basis of two new books on Vatican finances.

• Gay priest who married partner loses employment discrimination claim

  Canon Jeremy Pemberton, who was prevented from becoming a hospital chaplain after he married his partner, has lost his case claiming he was discriminated against by his bishop.

• Bishop warns against Iraqi law that children of Muslim converts must be Muslim

  A law forcing children of converts to Islam to be regarded as Muslims will contribute to the extinction of Christianity in Iraq, a bishop has warned.

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  Man claims he was 'sexual slave' for depraved people protected by Church

  The distressing testimony of Paulino, a former member of a Barcelona Catholic religious group, The Missionary Community of Saint Paul the Apostle and of Mary (MCSPA), has been published this week by the Spanish newspaper El País.

• Religion helps protect teens against alcoholism and addiction

  Religious practice helps reduce adolescent alcohol use and other "risk behaviours" says a paper in a special "religion and addiction" edition of the academic Religions journal.

• Fewer Americans now 'certain' that God exists

  Overall, the American public is becoming slightly less religious but those with a strong faith remain as devout as ever. Religious and non-religious Americans are also all becoming more accepting of homosexuality.

• Send in troops to defeat Islamic State says 'vicar of Baghdad' Andrew White

  Canon Andrew White told Christian Today: "There is one way to overcome ISIS. It is not bombing from the sky. We need troops on the ground to bring about a change. They are so evil, so terrible. They have done terrible things to the Christian community."