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A Christian organisation whose forerunner ran holiday camps that led to boys being beaten sadistically has reached a settlement with three men and
acknowledged that "lives have been blighted".
French police have launched a terrorism investigation after two people were killed and five wounded in a knife attack in the south-east of the country.
The Charity Commission is looking into a south London-based church after it was accused of promoting false coronavirus cleansing products made of oil and
string.
A complainant alleges that the Charity Commission has declined to receive evidence for its ongoing case involving the British Pakistani Christian
Association.
The police commissioner in the West Midlands has reacted furiously after Birmingham MP Tahir Ali joined a huge funeral prayer gathering - in defiance of
lockdown restrictions. The MP has said he attended in order to 'observe' as part of his inquiries into the way different councils were enforcing
restrictions.
Pakistani Muslims clashed with police trying to enforce new curbs on gatherings to prevent Friday prayers and contain coronavirus infections, officials have
said.
Prominent US religious groups have clashed over an administrative rule that allows funds from the coronavirus stimulus bill passed last week to go to houses
of worship.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan has found 16 cases of sexual abuse against minors spanning from the 1950s to the 2010s in its internal probe of
churches in the country, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Religious fanaticism is hindering the fight against coronavirus across much of the world. But in Britain, claims to religious exceptionalism are thankfully
relatively isolated, says Chris Sloggett.
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