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The disgraced former national education advisor for Roman Catholic schools sexually and physically abused a boy while he was a parish priest in Warwickshire.
The so-called Islamic State is plotting Christmas terror attacks in Britain and European countries in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in France, a former MI6 spy has warned.
Landmark legislation comes into effect allowing the conversion of same-sex civil partnerships into marriages, which many saw as the "final hurdle" for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.
Home-schooling is to be banned for all children in France from the age of three as President Macron presses ahead with plans to clamp down on radical Islam.
One of Europe's leading rabbis has criticised the Council of the European Union's declaration on antisemitism issued earlier this week, highlighting the absence of protection for Jewish rituals such as circumcision and kosher that have faced legislative challenges in a number of European countries.
The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who says he was sexually abused as a child by a defrocked priest who was convicted of sexually abusing several boys, the man's attorney said Thursday.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer who represented women who protested against the forced hijab, was allowed to return home at the beginning of last month after being given temporary release to allow her to have treatment for heart and lung problems.
Emma Park speaks to Rachel Laser, to discuss the state of US secularism in the aftermath of their 2020 election, and the American Christian rights' support for similar movements around the world.
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