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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 specs & features news: Samsung boss confirms Bixby 2.0
Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday, Samsung mobile CEO DJ Koh confirmed to reporters that their Bixby 2.0 virtual personal assistant platform will launch with the Galaxy Note 9. The voice assistant will also make its way to its other products in the future, including its smart TVs and smart speakers.
Top South Korean cleric apologises after priest is accused of attempted rape
One of South Korea's top Catholic clerics made a public apology today after a woman parishioner complained that a senior priest had attempted to rape her, amid growing criticism over the incident.
As Algeria ramps up pressure on Christians, World Evangelical Alliance calls for religious freedom
Following heightened government pressure on churches and Christians in Algeria, the World Evangelical Alliance's (WEA) Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) has called on authorities there to ensure religious freedom for people of all faiths.
Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre re-opens after Christian leaders' victory over Israeli politicians
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem will re-open at 4am on Wednesday morning after it emerged that the country's government will freeze a controversial church lands bill and the Jerusalem municipality will postpone a recent bid to collect taxes from church-owned properties.
Anti-religious bias in school textbooks could fuel next genocide, report warns
Religious bias and stereotypes in school children's textbooks around the world could fuel the next genocide, a new report is warning today, saying a failure to address the issue could be deadly.
Victory for Jerusalem's church leaders as Israel backtracks on lands bill and taxes after closure of Holy Sepulchre
Church leaders in Jerusalem appear to have won a stunning victory over Israeli politicians today, after it emerged that the country's government will freeze a controversial church lands bill and the Jerusalem municipality will postpone a recent bid to collect taxes from church-owned properties.
5 reason white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump
Katie Harrison on why Trump's evangelical supporters have knowingly embraced with open arms a man who makes no apology for his behaviour.
Banning circumcision would give Hitler a posthumous victory
To ban the practice would be to perpetrate a new Shoah all over again, and there is no doubt that the Jewish communities of Europe will resist any banning of this covenantal act, the key practice of our faith.
iPhone 2018 release date, specs rumors: Apple to release super-sized iPhone bigger than Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus
A trio of new iPhones are expected to be released this year and one of those will be a super-sized iPhone X upgrade that may have a larger display than the recently revealed, 6.2-inched Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus.
Islamic State targets Russian Orthodox Church head and Putin
Islamic State is taking aim in new propaganda posters at the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, as well as the Russian president Vladimir Putin alongside previous posters depicting the US and London as targets, according to orthodoxia.info and the SITE Intelligence Group.
Donald Trump will attend Billy Graham's funeral, White House confirms
Donald Trump will attend Billy Graham's funeral on Friday, the White House has confirmed.
Dagestan's deadly church attack: 3 arrests made
Three people have been arrested in connection with the gun attack at a Russian Orthodox Church in Dagestan which took placeon February 18 in which five people died and five others were injured, World Watch Monitor (WWM) reported.
Gardener in Galilee finds 700-year-old St Nicholas ring
A rare, intact bronze ring from the Middle Ages, bearing the image of St Nicholas, popularly known today as Santa Claus, was discovered by chance during recent landscaping work in the garden of a home in a community in the Jezreel Valley, lower Galilee.
The Holy Sepulchre: Inside the story of a well kept secret plan to shut the holiest church in Christianity
One of the most remarkable elements to the sensational story of the church's closure yesterday is that, given the different sides involved, it didn't leak out.
Holy Sepulchre closed because Israel's Christians believe they are under threat, says Bishop of Southwark
The Bishop of Southwark has called on Christians around the world to show 'solidarity' over the indefinite closure of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre in protest at a bill affecting church lands and new taxes on churches that are 'unfair, inappropriate and arbitrary'.