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Justin Welby: Curry's Royal wedding sermon 'blew the place open'
The archbishop of Canterbury has praised the sermon preached by Most Rev Michael Curry, primate of the Episcopal Church in the US (TEC), at the Royal wedding yesterday.

Venezuela's Maduro expected to defeat opposition split by evangelical pastor
The 55-year-old former bus driver is expected to win despite his unpopularity.

Oscar Romero, Paul VI to become saints in October
They will be made saints along with two priests and two nuns, the Vatican said in a statement.
Trump Jr offered campaign help by Gulf princes' emissary in 2016
The meeting was a chance for the envoy to offer help to the Trump presidential campaign, according to The New York Times.

Texas school shooter 'non-emotional', lawyer says
The teenager, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, has been charged with capital murder.

Conservative leader Tony Perkins named as newest addition to US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council (FRC), has been appointed to a position at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal government board that monitors violations of religious rights across the world.

The fire of love: the text of Michael Curry's Royal wedding sermon
The text of the sermon Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preached at the Royal wedding.

WATCH: The Royal wedding â meet Windsor's wildest fans
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be greeted by an estimated 100,000 Royal fans when then emerge from St George's Chapel after their wedding on Saturday.

Texas to name Santa Fe school shooting victims today
Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston, joined on Friday a long list of US campuses where students and faculty have been killed in mass shootings.

Plane crashes on take-off in Cuba, killing more than 100
The passenger plane, on a domestic flight to Holguin in eastern Cuba, crashed at 12:08 pm.

Windsor's wedding fever: Thousands gather to wish Harry and Meghan well
US actress Meghan Markle will become a duchess when she marries Prince Harry on Saturday after Queen Elizabeth bestowed the title of Duke of Sussex on her grandson hours before their glittering wedding.

How to live in the tension and grace of the liminal space
Liminal comes from the latin 'limen' which means 'on the threshold'.

Past its sell-by date? 5 reasons to close your mission agency
I thought I'd take the bull by the horns and suggest some criteria by which agency boards could assess whether they should keep going, or close their agency.

Assisted suicide decisively rejected by Guernsey's parliament
Proposals to make the Channel Island of Guernsey the first part of the British Isles to legalise assisted dying have been resoundingly defeated in a vote welcomed by Christian campaigners.
Chile's bishops offer mass resignation following Pope Francis' rebuke
'We have put our positions in the hands of the Holy Father and will leave it to him to decide freely for each of us.'

Disestablishment of CofE 'not a disaster' says Justin Welby
The disestablishment of the Church of England would 'not be a disaster', according to the archbishop of Canterbury.