All news on the topic: Religion

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Tory Minister admits he can't back up Suella Braverman's wild asylum claims
Tory Immigration Minister Tom Pursglove said there is 'no specific evidence' to support Suella Braverman's claim that churches are helping bogus asylum claims
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The way to wish someone Happy Ramadan and greetings to say during the holy month
Ramadan is the 9th month in the Islamic calendar, and runs from the evening of Sunday 10 March until Tuesday 9 April. Here we explain how to greet Muslims during the holy period of fasting
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King Charles's derelict church being transformed with mega £2m revamp
St Paul's Jubilee Memorial Church, in Penzance, Cornwall, was put on the market by the now King when he was Prince Charles’ Duchy of Cornwall and sold at auction
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Son of infamous televangelists on mum's scandalous legacy and 'complicated' dad
The son of an infamous Christian teleavenglist couple has said their lives were more complicated than people think and they had become scapegoats in a new documentary which is being released
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Horrific moment Jewish man is abused on Tube by passenger as police launch probe
The Jewish man, mocked for wearing a kippah, is goaded on a London Underground service by a Muslim man, behaviour condemned by research group Campaign Against Antisemitism
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Shooter's dark criminal past before she opened fire in celeb pastor's megachurch
A megachurch shooter who was killed while using a lethal assault weapon to attack members of the congregation had previous run-ins with cops over weapons
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Celeb pastor says 'evil will not prevail' after shooting at megachurch
Joel Osteen took to Twitter to reveal his "community is devastated by today's events and grateful for the swift actions of law enforcement" after the Texas megahurch shooting on Sunday
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Moment hero locals at Kosher shop use trollies to stop man with knife
Footage sent exclusively to The Mirror shows disorder at Kay's Local, a small Kosher supermarket in the Golders Green area of north London, which police say "will cause concern in the community"
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'I made huge mistake marrying my wife - but I'll never break up with her'
A couple who came close to splitting up have recounted how they went on a journey to redemption in a bid to save their relationship for their children and grandchildren
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School sent vile note warning 'no one is safe' amid anti-Semitic incidents
The letter sent to a Jewish school in Greater Manchester is one of 1,890 anti-Semitic incidents recorded by a charity since October - when Hamas breached the Gaza–Israel barrier
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Paedo priest 'told 13-year-old girl it was God's will she have sex with him'
Victor Manuel Hernandez-Pineda was arrested by police after his victim, now aged 21, reported she survived three years of abuse as a child in Richmond, California
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Mum slit baby's throat so he could 'be with Jesus and God,' police say
April Evalyn Short, a 30-year-old Georgia mother of three, has been charged with murdering her infant son by slitting his throat, apparently believing that it would enable him to 'be with Jesus and God'
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Megachurch pastor who rejected hell and championed LGBTQI+ rights dies at 70
Bishop Carlton Pearson, known for founding Higher Dimensions Family Church and later embracing universalism, passed away at the age of 70 in Tulsa after battling cancer
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Church bells that have rung for 200 years silenced after noise complaint
A single complaint to the council saw the bells at Beith Parish Church in Ayrshire silenced - but other locals have supported a campaign to reverse the decision
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Virgin Mary statue 'starts crying' with 'real tears rolling down her cheeks'
The statue in Mexico was spotted shedding real tears and people are now flocking to witness the 'miracle' from miles away on special religious pilgrimages
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Virgin Mary statue 'starts crying real tears' as pilgrims flock to see 'miracle'
The so-called miracle happened inside a church in Mexico and led some local people to believe that the tears were a sign of something more serious happening in Colima state
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Pope Francis fires social media crazed bishop in move critics call 'total war'
A one-line statement from the Vatican said Pope Francis had 'relieved' Bishop Joseph Strickland of the pastoral governance of Tyler and appointed the bishop of Austin as the temporary administrator
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Should groups that do nothing apart from promote religion get charitable status?
The Hamas atrocities have exposed UK religious groups with viciously divisive and deeply uncharitable objectives
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Minister of church in baptism ceremony 'drowning' says man 'danced with Jesus'
Cheryl Reid-Bartley, the founder of the Life Changing Ministries, addressed her congregation in a Facebook Live video, one day after the death of Robert Yap at a baptism service
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Terrifying Doomsday cult where kids are 'forced to marry men twice their age'
The cult is believed to have sprung up on a remote island and the chilling tales from those who have escaped have prompted concern around the world
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Woman's parents blamed their ‘sin’ for birth defect - then she became athlete
Katelyn Pavey was born with only one fully developed arm - but that wasn’t enough to stop her becoming one of the USA’s best amateur softball players. Now, a film is being released about Pavey’s inspirational story
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Inside church with a bar to serve beer on tap - but not everyone likes it
A controversial bar fitting has seen a church congregation split in two as kegs and a selection of water and wines are now on offer, just in time for the religious property to host festival-goers
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Noah's Ark Bible story 'could be proved true by ruins found in Iraq'
A documentary claims to have proof that the story from the Bible could be fact and not fiction - it also raises several other points and insists they are true
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'Atomic blast' destroyed ancient Bible city of Sodom says expert who has 'proof'
The city of Tall el-Hammam in the Jordan Valley was destroyed in a catastrophic event, according to a theologian, but now ground-breaking discoveries have cast new research on the city
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Inside Japanese cult responsible for deadly nerve agent attack on Tokyo subway
Doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo was responsible for a terror attack in Tokyo during the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, which killed 13 people and injured 6,226