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Quantas boss 'face-pied' by Christian campaigner over gay marriage support

The CEO of Australia's Quantas airline has said he'll continue to campaign for same-sex marriage even after a Christian objector rubbed a pie in his face at a business breakfast.

Pope travels to Portugal to canonise two children of Fatima who saw visions of the Virgin Mary

Pope Francis has sent a special video message to the people of Portugal as he prepares to travel to Fatima to canonise on Saturday two of the three children who saw six visions of a woman dressed in white, believed to have been the Virgin Mary.

Proof the Bible's Tower of Babel really existed found on ancient stone tablet

"Biblical scholars have long debated whether the Tower of Babel really existed. Now, a remarkable stone tablet never before shown on film appears to settle that question," the Smithsonian magazine says.

Analysis: Prayer, politics and unlikely success as Justin Welby completes 12-day tour of the Holy Land

For a man who has endured more than 80 meetings over 12 days during what has been his longest official visit as Archbishop of Canterbury in probably the most complicated region in the world, Justin Welby was in remarkably good spirits as he ended his tour of the Holy Land this afternoon.

Go Sokolovsky! Russian blogger free to Pokemon Go â just not in church

The Russian atheist blogger who faced jail for playing Pokemon Go in a church has been handed a three-and-a-half year suspended sentence in a rebuff to prosecutors.

Israel-Palestine âÂ it's all about teamwork. Archbishop Welby takes to the football pitch to make a point

The Archbishop rounded off his Middle East trip with a kickabout at the British Foreign Office-funded Equalizer Project in Jaffa, where Arab teams from the town come together to play soccer with Jewish kids from neighbouring Tel Aviv.

Rabbi apologises for popular video of Pope Francis dancing with Hasidic Jews

A popular video of Pope Francis dancing with a group of Hasidic Jews at the Vatican has drawn criticism from some Orthodox Jews and 'deep regret' from one who took part

Jewish leaders say Belgian ban on kosher slaughter is worst assault on their rights since Nazis

European rabbis have condemned a decision by the French-speaking Walloon parliament in Belgium to ban kosher and halal meat.

Franklin Graham laments global 'Christian genocide', claims 100,000 are killed annually for their faith

Franklin Graham has called Christians to stand against the global 'Christian genocide', saying that 100,000 believers are killed every year for their faith.

Christianity reasserts itself across former Communist Eastern Europe

Religion is reasserting itself as a major part of national life in Eastern Europe 28 years since the Communist regime suppressed faith and instilled atheism.

Christian converts in German refugee camps growing in number despite attacks by Muslim refugees

Christian converts living in German refugee camps are reporting more cases of violent physical and verbal attacks from Muslim asylum seekers living among them.

Archbishop of Canterbury says Trump could bring peace to the Middle East

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, speaking after touring tense West Bank city of Hebron, said that by using the office of the US president, Donald Trump has the capacity to 'tip things very, very decisively' when it comes to bringing peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

This Palestinian Muslim and Israeli Jew both lost their kids to the 'other side'. Now they work together for peace

From the Parents Circle, a joint Palestinian Israeli organization of more than 620 families, all of whom have lost a close family member as a result of the conflict, Bassam Aramin and Robi Damelin are in London to tell their remarkable stories of forgiveness and reconciliation

Afghan Christian mother killed in Germany, investigated as religiously motivated attack