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Interview: the 3 US heroes who saved the 15:17 to Paris, now a Hollywood blockbuster
Interview: the 3 US heroes who saved the 15:17 to Paris, now a Hollywood blockbuster

When, like many other passengers, three American friends boarded a train from Amsterdam to Paris on August 21, 2015, they could not have known that they would disembark as international heroes.

'Human life is sacred from conception': Irish church appeals for vote against change to abortion law
'Human life is sacred from conception': Irish church appeals for vote against change to abortion law

The Irish Catholic Church has appealed for people to vote against a change to the abortion law, emphasising that 'human life is sacred from conception' and urging voters to preserve the 'equal right to life of the mother and her unborn child'.

Mysterious Voynich manuscript is in HEBREW, say scientists using AI
Mysterious Voynich manuscript is in HEBREW, say scientists using AI

An ancient manuscript that has baffled scholars for centuries is on the verge of being deciphered after computing scientists discovered it was written in Hebrew.

When is Ash Wednesday 2018? And what is Lent?
When is Ash Wednesday 2018? And what is Lent?

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a period of fasting and penance observed for thousands of years by many Christians including, especially, Catholics as well as Anglicans, Methodists and Lutherans.

Ash Wednesday or Valentine's Day? This year it's a choice between them
Ash Wednesday or Valentine's Day? This year it's a choice between them

It's a problem for Christians who believe in true romance. For this year, Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine's Day.

Did Mike Pence 'co-opt' Holocaust victims to appeal to evangelical base?

Mike Pence has been accused of 'co-opting' Holocaust victims 'for the political agenda of his evangelical base' after the US Vice President talked of resurrection in a tweet honouring International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the weekend.

Priest banned from ministry to defend George Bell at Church of England's headquarters
Priest banned from ministry to defend George Bell at Church of England's headquarters

A disgraced priest barred from ministry for abusing colleagues and making malicious allegations against his superiors is to speak at the Church of England's headquarters in London on Thursday.

Anti-gay Arizona pastor who called for death of Obama banned from Jamaica
Anti-gay Arizona pastor who called for death of Obama banned from Jamaica

A Holocaust-denying and anti-gay pastor from Arizona has been denied entry into Jamaica after outcry from activists on the island.

Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas in 'astonishing' blog on grief and faith
Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas in 'astonishing' blog on grief and faith

Sky Sports anchor and committed Christian Simon Thomas says he is weak from grief after his wife Gemma died suddenly, aged 40, late last year.

Hillsong's worship band wins Grammy Award in New York
Hillsong's worship band wins Grammy Award in New York

Hillsong's worship band won it's first Grammy award in New York on Sunday night for the song What A Beautiful Name.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri: A brilliant film to hate
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri: A brilliant film to hate

Three Bilboards is a film that left me leaving the cinema with a spirit of heaviness, wishing that I had gone to see The Post instead.

These two great broadcasters are helping us appreciate creation
These two great broadcasters are helping us appreciate creation

Professor Cox talks about the whole thing being shot through with magic. And for me the question is can there be magic without a magician.

Trump's Afghanistan strategy under spotlight after 11 dead in fourth attack on Kabul
Trump's Afghanistan strategy under spotlight after 11 dead in fourth attack on Kabul

Donald Trump's strategy in Afghanistan is under the spotlight after 11 soldiers were killed in the fourth major attack on the capital Kabul in the last nine days.

The Post review: in the fake news age, the truth shall set you free
The Post review: in the fake news age, the truth shall set you free

It's no coincidence that a film about the freedom of the press has been released at the very moment that this freedom is at great threat of being eroded.

The Pandora's Box of Spiritual Abuse is out: Here's what the Church must do
The Pandora's Box of Spiritual Abuse is out: Here's what the Church must do

We need to open this issue up, it will be painful and I don't know where the boundaries should be drawn, but we can't duck it if we are genuinely to be a Church of healing and flourishing.

What Barack Obama's Christianity can teach white evangelicals
What Barack Obama's Christianity can teach white evangelicals

Evangelicals may find such attention as they received from Barack Obama more hard to come by after the Trump era takes its full toll.