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"Migrants and refugees are ignored, exploited, raped and abused" wrote Pope Francis to forum participants on migration in Mexico. The head of the Catholic Church emphasized the importance of the global agreements on migration being prepared and called for the reception and protection of refugees.more

The Catholic Church is appealing for more donations from parishioners to help plug a €4m debt left over from staging the World Meeting of Families (WMOF).more

Algerian leader Ahmed Ouahiya has banned women working in the country's public sector from wearing full-face veils, also known as niqabs. more

Radical imam Anjem Choudary, convicted for supporting the jihadist Islamic State organization, has now been conditionally released from prison. The man is considered one of the most dangerous extremists in Britain.more

There has been a surge in hate crime targeting people due to their religious beliefs, with the majority aimed at Muslims and Jewish people, official figures show. more

Pope Francis expelled from the priesthood two Chilean bishops accused of pedophilia, the Vatican said today. This is another consequence of the scandal in the Chilean church.more

Pope Francis assessed that abortion is like "hiring a paid killer". During the General Audience in the Vatican, he added that one can not be considered a "therapeutic, civilized or human" act that "kills innocent and defenseless life".more

The total ban on wearing the burek comes into effect in the small town of Trino in Piedmont in the north of Italy. The regulations developed in the town ruled by the right-wing League concern two or three women who walk on the streets fully covered - the local authorities have said.more

The Christmas lights have gone up on Oxford Street dividing Londoners as some react with exasperation and others with joy.more

The film "Kler" is a lack of moral responsibility for the created culture by people who still want to be called artists and art promoters. It is a manifestation of their weakness and fall - said the Catholic Action in the issued message.more

The Catholic Church is struggling with the problem of sexual abuse of minors by the clergy. 81 percent examined by the IBRiS at the request of "Rzeczpospolita" thinks that the problem also concerns the Church in Poland - writes today "Rzeczpospolita".more

A new police uniform has been developed specifically for Muslim women in an attempt to recruit more black and minority ethnic officers.more

A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated by perceived insults to Islam in the Netherlands, prosecutors said on Monday.more

Geert Wilders said the controversial contest would not go ahead following death threats and concerns other people could be put at risk.more

The so-called Islamic State (IS) has released a recording in which he announced a revenge on Spain for the killing of six terrorists by her police forces, who took part in last year's attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.more

Pope Francis has said that families shouldn't shun their children for being gay, but should seek psychiatric help instead. The head of the Catholic Church made the comments while travelling back from a visit to Ireland, where LGBT+ rights had been a key dividing issue.more

Francis describes abuse committed by members of the Church in Ireland as an "open wound" and asks for forgiveness for the "sins".more

Pope Francis has begged forgiveness for clerical child sex abuse and reiterated his wish to see justice served. The pontiff made the comments at the Marian shrine in Knock during the second day of an historic trip to the Republic of Ireland.more

For the first time in the history of World Meetings of Families, organized since 1994 at the initiative of Saint. Pope John Paul II, on the ongoing party in Dublin, a Polish booth presenting the Polish church, family and saints was prepared with great interest.more

The church is afraid to tackle clerical abuse because it fears the true scale of the problem would be unearthed, Marie Collins has said.more

The green vestment to be worn by Pope Francis during the papal mass is adorned with a Celtic symbol to represent his historic visit to Ireland.more

When free tickets for the mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis in Phoenix Park in Dublin were advertised, Mary Coll applied for two - one in her name and the other in the name of her birth mother, who gave her up for adoption in 1962.more

In a letter to the faithful about the pedophiles in the Church, Pope Francis wrote that "there will never be enough to ask for forgiveness and to try to make good the damage". He called these acts "monstrosities" and expressed his repentance for the errors and neglect of the Church.more

The Vatican expressed "shame and sorrow" Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in that state, calling the abuse "criminally and morally reprehensible" and saying Pope Francis wants to eradicate "this tragic horror."more

Armed police were deployed after ball bearings were fired at two mosques in Birmingham from what is thought to be a heavy duty catapult.more