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Joseph M. Czuba, 71, allegedly stabbed the child 26 times before he succumbed to injuries.

The roof of a church has collapsed in northern Mexico during a Sunday mass, killing at least nine people and injuring around 50.

TV footage and videos on social media showed an open area near a mosque strewn with the shoes of the dead and wounded.

A common prayer and a bite of street food was enough to put Lina Lutfiawati behind bars.

It's set to focus heavily on his Christian faith and touch on "cancel culture, identity politics and deep secularisation".

The man has been accused of attacking family members during a house fire.

From the decision to beatify an entire family, to the declaration an unbaptised baby was baptised in its "mother's blood", it's a move without precedent in the history of the Church.

A now-91-year-old disgraced priest has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975.

Muslims in France face strict limits on their display of religious conviction

A crowd vandalised eight churches and several homes of Christians following accusations of blasphemy against Islam.

He ranted about Jews online before carrying out the attack at Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, 2018, and told police at the scene that "all these Jews must die".

Pope Francis has called on Portuguese clergy members to listen to Catholic child sex abuse victims as he addressed the scandal in the country for the first time.

Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two of her children and for conspiring in the murder of her husband's first wife.

Over two million Muslims will take part in this week's Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as one of the world's largest religious gatherings returns to full capacity following years of coronavirus restrictions.

Over two million Muslims will take part in this week's Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia

A Pentecostal pastor's conviction for indecently assaulting a teenager has been overturned.

Inspire Church founder John McMartin felt guilty about an inappropriate massage he gave a teenage woman, but maintains he did not indecently assault her.

His surgeon says the pontiff is now "better than before" the hospitalisation.

There were no complications after the three-hour surgery, during which Francis was under general anaesthesia.

A US school district that recently pulled the King James Bible from elementary and middle school libraries has now received a request to review the Book of Mormon for removal, according to school officials.

The condition of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster's body has 'generated widespread interest and raised important questions'

Buddha was born approximately 2567 years ago, and although the exact date is unknown, Buddha's official birthday is celebrated on the full moon in May in South Korea, which is on May 27 this year.

Politicians, church leaders and representatives of the charity sector farewelled the popular clergyman in Melbourne.

Father Bob Maguire's state funeral will be held on May 5 at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, the Victorian government has announced.

The leader of the religious sect has been described as a 'terrible criminal'.

Known as the "people's priest", Father Bob dedicated his life to charity and social justice.

An Austrian researcher has discovered a fragment of the Bible unseen for about 1300 years.

A church which runs some of Australia's most prestigious schools believes students who are gay or having sex before marriage should not take up school leadership positions.

The boy asked if he could hug him, but the Dalai Lama then asked the boy to kiss him on the lips and stuck out his tongue.

The pontiff renewed calls for global peace during the high point of the Christian calendar.

Iranian authorities are to use cameras in public places to identify women who violate the country's hijab law, state media reported.

Tensions have soared in the past week at the flashpoint shrine after an Israeli police raid on the mosque.

At least 12 Filipinos are to be nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ's suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition

The Vatican said he will remain in hospital for several days of treatment.

The megachurch's former senior pastor claimed he had just been driving his car a few hundred metres to park it after drinking.

The decision follows a bruising five-week contest that exposed deep fractures within the pro-independence movement.

The government delayed the daylight saving switch but many businesses refused to listen. The result is chaos.

The Hillsong founder allegedly used church money on private jets, family holidays and luxury purchases.

Queensland Police believe the the Wieambilla terrorists were believers of an extremist Christian ideology known as premillennialism.

Senior Portuguese church officials had previously claimed that only a handful of cases had occurred.

A Buddhist temple in Melbourne's south-east has been destroyed by fire overnight leaving some families to fear treasured ashes of loved ones have been lost forever.

Controversial Cardinal George Pell was farewelled at a funeral in Sydney - but not everybody was there to pay their respects.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of Australia's highest-ranking Catholic church official Cardinal George Pell.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has offered high praise of the Catholic church's divisive leader at his funeral at St Mary's Cathedral.

The LGBT+ demonstrators had vowed to protest regardless, but have now come to a compromise with police.

Pope Francis criticised laws that criminalise homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.

The Lunar New Year 2023 begins on Sunday, January 22. Here's a look at how millions of people across the world will be celebrating the Year of the Rabbit.

A group of US religious leaders who support abortion rights filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri's law that bans abortions in nearly all cases.

The Church of England said on Wednesday it will allow blessings for same-sex, civil marriages for the first time but same-sex couples still will not be allowed to marry in its churches.