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Gaza militants launch heaviest barrage in years against Israel
Gaza militants launch heaviest barrage in years against Israel

Palestinian militants launched their heaviest barrages against Israel since the 2014 Gaza war on Tuesday and Israeli aircraft struck back in a surge of fighting after weeks of border violence.

10 beheaded in Mozambique suspected Islamist attack
10 beheaded in Mozambique suspected Islamist attack

Mozambique's state radio service has announced the beheading of 10 people including children in an area where previous Islamist attacks have been reported.

Ireland's abortion referendum: Our commitment to unborn children remains unchanged, says Cardinal Nichols
Ireland's abortion referendum: Our commitment to unborn children remains unchanged, says Cardinal Nichols

The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has offered his 'prayerful support' to Irish archbishops following the referendum on abortion in Ireland.

Dynamite Dan: Lessons of faith from a 1980s computer game
Dynamite Dan: Lessons of faith from a 1980s computer game

What if the best is something you've yet to experience? What if you're not alone in the universe? What if you're no longer a slave but a son.

School principal resigns after punishing students with Bible reading
School principal resigns after punishing students with Bible reading

The principal of North Bend High School in Oregon has reportedly stepped down from his post following complaints that students have been forced to read from the Bible as a form of punishment.

2,000 flock to UK's first 'Bible based play centre' in opening month
2,000 flock to UK's first 'Bible based play centre' in opening month

More than 2,000 parents and children are flocking to the UK's first 'Bible based play centre' set up in Manchester.

Make A Meal Of It: Christian charities in fight against loneliness
Make A Meal Of It: Christian charities in fight against loneliness

Christians Together Against Loneliness is aimed at helping older people in particular who might feel isolated or cut off from wider society.

Leige: 'Terrorist attacker' shot dead after killing three in Belgian town
Leige: 'Terrorist attacker' shot dead after killing three in Belgian town

A man has been shot dead by police in the Belgian city of Liege after apparently killing three people in what is believed to be a terrorist attack.

Solo review: Star Wars asks if there's an unforgivable sin
Solo review: Star Wars asks if there's an unforgivable sin

While some will suggest that it doesn't feel like a real Star Wars instalment, Martin Saunders says he actually found it quite refreshing.

Jimmy Carter denounces sex-selective abortion in commencement address at Liberty University
Jimmy Carter denounces sex-selective abortion in commencement address at Liberty University

Former President Jimmy Carter has spoken out against discrimination against women and sex-selective abortions during his commencement address at Liberty University recently.

'Not even God loves gang members': Why a pastor and former MS-13 gangster wants to prove critics wrong
'Not even God loves gang members': Why a pastor and former MS-13 gangster wants to prove critics wrong

An evangelical pastor has told of his past as a member of the world's most dangerous gang.

Climate change course aims to persuade evangelicals to go green
Climate change course aims to persuade evangelicals to go green

A new climate change course is targeting evangelical Christians, hoping to persuade the notoriously skeptical group to go green.

Catholic seminary stormed by Fulani herders in Nigeria
Catholic seminary stormed by Fulani herders in Nigeria

A Catholic seminary was stormed by a group of suspected Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria's middle belt early on Monday morning and a priest narrowly escaped being killed.

Church that lost 10 evangelical pastor couples in Cuba plane crash appeals for prayers
Church that lost 10 evangelical pastor couples in Cuba plane crash appeals for prayers

One week after the plane crash in Havana, Cuba that killed 120 people including twenty evangelical pastors on May 19, the denomination that lost the pastor couples has appealed for prayers.

'Spiderman' Mamoudou Gassama is a hero – but his treatment raises disturbing questions

It takes this real-life 'Spiderman' about 30 seconds to reach his goal – a dangling small boy, in imminent danger of falling to his death.

GAFCON head says breakaway provinces are Anglican too
GAFCON head says breakaway provinces are Anglican too

Continuing tensions in the Anglican Communion over the status of breakaway provinces have been highlighted by the general secretary of the conservative GAFCON group.