166 inquiries, 221 suspects and 248 victims of molestation - such figures on the scale of pedophilia in the Church in Chile were presented by the national prosecutor's office. She reported that 152 priests, 10 bishops, about 30 nuns and monks were subjected to investigations.more
A 19-year-old man was in custody after a shooting at a California synagogue on the last day of Passover left at least one person dead and several others wounded, the city's mayor said Saturday.more
Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena has said police are looking for 140 people believed to have links to Isis over the Easter Sunday attacks that killed at least 253 people.more
The death toll in Sri Lanka has soared to 290 after a wave of blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across the country on Sunday. Police said 24 people had been arrested, but it is not yet known who carried out the attacks.more
World leaders have condemned a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 207 people and left 450 wounded on Sunday, including dozens of foreigners - with British, Dutch and American citizens believed to be among them.more
Catholic worshipers feeling orphaned by the fire that ravaged part of Notre Dame will be welcomed in an "ephemeral cathedral" of wood in front of the Paris monument until it reopens, Notre Dame's chief priest said Thursday.more
Priests in the northern Polish city of Koszalin burned books which they said are sacrilegious, including tomes from British author JK Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels.more
Pope Francis addressed the ongoing phenomenon of mass migration on Saturday, during a meeting with migrants at the diocesan Caritas centre in Rabat.more
One of the main groups representing Muslims in France is suing Facebook and YouTube, accusing the media companies of inciting violence by allowing the streaming of footage of the Christchurch massacre on their platforms.more
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, unknown perpetrators knocked out windows in five mosques in the second largest city of Britain - Birmingham. The West Midlands County Police in Central West England announced the initiation of the investigation.more
Mosques around the UK has opened their doors and welcomed people of all beliefs in order to tackle 'negative stigma that people have around Islam'.
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A judge has jailed a 48-year-old homeless Polish man after he called a Catholic priest "a motherfucker" outside St Peter and Paul Pro-Cathedral in Ennis last month.more
Rural churches no longer have to hold a weekly Sunday service after bishops voted to change canon law. Previously, the 1603 law, which was written into modern ecclesiastical law in the 1960s, stated that all parish churches had to hold a Sunday service.more