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Orthodox Christmas: 10 pictures that show how it's celebrated around the world
Orthodox Christians mark the birth of Jesus today, January 7. We look at some of the ways people are celebrating around the world.
Why are people in rich countries less religious?
Countries like Ethiopia, Pakistan and the Philippines have populations for whom well over 80 per cent see religion as important in their lives. In the US it's 53 per cent and the Uk just 21 per cent.
Catholic Church protests easing of abortion laws in Northern Ireland
The Catholic church in Northern Ireland is calling for an appeal against the November ruling that will allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality.
Jews in north London attacked with gas canisters
Police in London are investigating an antisemitic assault when gas canisters were thrown at Jewish people on the streets of north London yesterday.
We will rebuild your torched churches, Egypt president tells Christians
The president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has pledged to rebuild every single one of the dozens of churches, Christian institutions and homes destroyed during the last two years of anti-Christian violence in his troubled nation.
El Salvador to arrest soldiers accused of murdering six priests in 1989
El Salvador's government has said it will cooperate in arresting 17 former soldiers who were allegedly involved in the killing of six Jesuit priests during the country's civil war.
Bishops protest death penalty ahead of serial killer's execution
Florida's Catholic bishops have urged the governor to end the death penalty ahead of the execution of serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin, Jr. scheduled to take place today.
Guatemala: How the love of Christ is reaching a generation of lost children
Some are orphans, some have special educational needs, and some have been rescued from gangs â nine year-olds given a gun and told to kill.
Syrian town is starving to death under loyalist siege
Residents of a loyalist-held Syrian town about 30 miles from Damascus are starving to death, according to a Guardian report.
Pope set to honour victims of worst anti-Christian violence in India
Extremist Hindus went on a series of murderous rampages eight years ago attacking and killing men and women of various Christian denominations.
Anne Graham Lotz: 'I can feel evil approaching, our nation is enveloped in darkness'
"I can feel the encroaching darkness of evil that is like a heavy moral and spiritual fog. It's permeating our nation at every level" said Lotz in a piece which doesn't name specific issues, but has a grave tone.
Larycia Hawkins hits back at Wheaton for firing her
Hawkins said that she is "flummoxed and flabbergasted" by the college's actions.
Paris police shoot man dead on Charlie Hebdo anniversary
Paris police shot dead a knife-wielding man who tried to enter a police station shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) and who may have been wearing a suicide belt, official and union sources said.
Putin signs document naming U.S., NATO as threats to Russia's national security
For the first time, the United States has been named as a threat to Russia's national security in the updated document signed by President Vladimir Putin.
U.S.-led airstrikes obliterate ISIS' high Sharia court in Iraq, killing militants inside
A high Sharia court in Iraq's city of Mosul has been wiped out when U.S-led airstrikes bombed the area recently, killing militants and destroying all equipment inside, according to reports.
Sex education curriculum changes in U.S. schools 'rape children of their innocence,' parent says
The Omaha Public Schools board held a public meeting with parents Monday night about the proposed changes in the sexual education curriculum, which has stayed the same for 30 years.