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Catholic nun excommunicated for being secretly ordained as a priest
A Roman Catholic nun has been excommunicated and dismissed from her religious order last week after admitting that she was secretly ordained as a priest earlier this year.
Faith groups must work together in the face of 'brazen persecution' say religious leaders
Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis have written a joint article calling for people of different faiths to work together.
Why BiblicalGenderRoles.com does not represent the true Christian view of sex
News outlets around the world have each picked up on a blog titled 'Biblical Gender Roles', a website which claims that men should not tolerate their wives refusing sex, and that husbands should invoke fear in their wives.
The camel and the needle: What did Jesus really mean?
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Former bishop Heather Cook will serve seven years for fatal hit-and-run
Former Bishop of Maryland Heather Cook will serve seven years in prison for killing cyclist Tom Palermo
Sacked gay priest condemns 'homophobic hate' of Catholic Church
Poland-born Krzysztof Charamsa, 43, wrote: "Today, I side with the fantastic people who are homosexual, for centuries humiliated by a fanatical Church. I no longer accept the salvation that excludes â without any foundation whatsoever â a part of humanity."
Donald Trump's Presbyterian and Ben Carson's Seventh-day Adventists: A description of 2 Christian faiths
US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has decided to pit his Presbyterian faith against the Seventh-day Adventist beliefs of his chief rival, Ben Carson. At a rally on Saturday in Florida, Trump claimed that his Presbyterian faith is superior to his rival's Christian denomination, News Max reported.
Pope to issue post-Synod document on the 'joy of family'
The Pope is expected to follow-up the three-week Synod on the Family with an exhortation on "the joy of the family"
Find an Evensong service near you: Cambridge chorister sets up Time Out-style Evensong guide
A former choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge is launching a Time Out- style guide to choral evensong around the country.
Vicar saved from life-threatening disease after wife donates her own kidney
Rev Matthew Baynes had been told he would spend the rest of his life on dialysis without a transplant.
'It could have been a massacre': Shell hits Aleppo church during Sunday service
Seven people were injured when the shell hit the Church of St Francis in the Azizyeh residential district.
Catholic leaders issue unprecedented appeal to UN on climate change
Roman Catholic cardinals, patriarchs and bishops have issued an unprecedented appeal to the UN to produce a "truly transformational" agreement to tackle climate change when it meets at the long awaited conference in Paris.
Pentagon 'used Christian aid group to spy on North Korea'
An investigation claims that HISG received funding from the Pentagon connected to espionage in the secretive state.
Another evangelical church demolished in Muslim-majority Sudan
There are growing fears for Christians in Sudan after another church was destroyed.
Obama urged to hold Indonesia to account over religious persecution
Religious intolerance should be high on the agenda in President Obama's meetings with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, a religious freedom charity has said.
First female Lord Spiritual looks forward to a woman Archbishop of Canterbury
Bishop Rachel Treweek, who is to take a seat in the House of Lords today, has said she would like a woman to be Archbishop of Canterbury.