World
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Fast food chain banned from airports over views on homosexuality and same-sex marriage
Chick-fil-A has been banned for the second time from an airport concession project over the popular fast food chicken chain's support for groups that hold conservative views on homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
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Mystery surrounds the location of a $450m painting of Jesus by Leonardo Da Vinci
The world's most expensive painting, a centuries old image of Jesus known as the "Salvator Mundi" attributed to legendary Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci, has disappeared from sight in Abu Dhabi.
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Archaeologists discover ancient seal bearing the name of an official from the court of biblical King Josiah
A tiny clay impression from the 8th century BC, which bears an inscription mentioning a member of the court of the biblical King Josiah, was recently located in the City of David in Jerusalem.
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Pope Francis and Morocco's King Mohammed VI say Jerusalem must be open to people of all faith
Pope Francis and Morocco's King Mohammed VI called on Saturday for the protection of Jerusalem's multi-religious character, saying the city's sacred sites must be accessible to worshippers of all faiths.
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Catastrophic failure of Earth's global systems led to the extinction of the dinosaurs â we may yet go the same way
Growing evidence suggests that the dinosaurs' extinction cannot be explained as a simple process during which one "bad thing" fell out of a clear blue sky and everything died
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For the women who escape the clutches of Boko Haram, stigma and heartache awaits them back home
Militant group Boko Haram is responsible for thousands of deaths in Nigeria. But there is a different kind of suffering that has been inflicted upon countless women and their families.
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Christian pro-lifer disinvited from Cornell University debate because of biblical marriage views
A Christian speaker was disinvited from defending the pro-life position in a debate at Cornell University after it was discovered that she holds the historic Christian view on sexuality and marriage.
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How churches are being used to save the lives of mothers and babies in Togo
In Togo, West Africa, one in 20 babies do not live to see their first birthday but churches are playing a vital role in turning around that devastating statistic.
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Greece angry after Turkish president says Hagia Sophia could be turned into a mosque
Turning the former Byzantine cathedral Hagia Sophia into a mosque would be an "insult" to Christians, the Greek government has said.
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Canada's oldest rape crisis centre defunded for refusing to allow trans women
The Vancouver city council has voted to cut public funding from Canada's oldest rape crisis centre because they refuse to allow trans-identified males into spaces specifically reserved for female victims.
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Islamic State has been defeated, say Syrian Democratic Forces
US-backed forces said they had captured Islamic State's last shred of territory in eastern Syria at Baghouz on Saturday, ending the group's self-proclaimed caliphate after years of fighting.
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Christians and Muslims stand together to remember victims of New Zealand mosque shootings
Christians stood side by side with Muslims on Friday as New Zealand remembered the victims of the mosque shootings a week ago.
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Gap closing between number of evangelicals and religious 'nones' in the US
The number of religious "nones" in the United States are now statistically equal to the number of evangelicals, according to a political scientist who analyzed data from the recently released 2018 General Social Survey.
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Cyclone Idai disaster 'is getting worse', not better, warns CAFOD
Catholic aid agency CAFOD says it has been left shocked as the scale of the destruction caused by Cyclone Idai across southern Africa becomes more apparent.
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'We are with you' - the Archbishop of Canterbury's message to Muslims after New Zealand mosque attack
The Archbishop of Canterbury has vowed to stand with Muslims following the horrific mosque shooting in New Zealand last week.