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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

Sri Lanka has revised down the death toll from last Sunday's wave of bombings by more than 100, to "about 253", the health ministry says.more

Sri Lankan authorities have revealed one of the nine suicide bombers in the Easter Sunday attack had studied in UK.more

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that killed at least 359 people.more

The death toll of the attacks on churches and hotels has increased to 310, police said on Tuesday.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

At least 207 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police and hospital sources say.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

The Dalai Lama has been admitted to hospital in Delhi with a chest infection, an aide said, adding that the 83-year-old Buddhist monk was stable.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

The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued an appeal for civility as MPs try to find a way to end the deadlock over Brexit.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

Facebook has acted quickly to remove footage appearing to show a shooting at a mosque in New Zealand. more

British mosques will be given extra security following the terror attack in New Zealand. more

On 13 March 2013, the 76 year old Cardinal became Pope Francis choosing the name in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi.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'. more

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

A prominent Catholic cardinal has revealed that evidence of sex abuse by priests was destroyed by the Church, allowing paedophiles to flourish.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

Church files on priests who sexually abused children were destroyed or never even drawn up, a move which allowed them to prey on others, a German cardinal has said.more

"We have failed, we must seek forgiveness" - said Cardinal Oswald Gracias from India on the second day of the Vatican-led summit under the leadership of Pope Francis on the fight against pedophilia.more