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French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has republished cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed that made them the target of a deadly terror attack in 2015.
A DUP MLA and prominent opponent of same-sex marriage has said that "LGBT militants" could try and force clergy to carry out or facilitate same-sex marriages.
The Church of England has been accused of withholding vital information which could have paved the way for affordable homes being built in a rural community.
A Chinese citizen who claimed to be at risk of persecution in China because of his practise of the banned Falun Gong religion has lost his appeal against a decision by the Home Secretary to treat his further submissions as a fresh claim.
The Vatican both fought efforts to reunite two Holocaust orphans with their relatives and urged Pope Pius XII not to protest the Nazi deportation of Italian Jews, Brown University historian David I. Kertzer has found.
Hundreds of women and girls in North Rift continue to be subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) despite the practice being outlawed. This has in turn negatively affected education of girls in the region, with reports indicating that less than 50 per cent of cut girls continue with the learning; the rest are married off after being subjected to FGM.
There are already fears about creeping censorship and muzzling of the press and activists in Pakistan, with existing or proposed restrictions limiting free speech, usually in the name of Islam or national security.
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