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In the 30-minute festive play, which aired in December, the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society put on a disastrous Nativity, in which the baby Jesus
is eaten by a sheep.
Every SNP councillor in the Western Isles has endorsed a Catholic teaching pack which upholds the church's stance against gay sex, and snubbed materials
provided by the Scottish government.
A neurologist who is also a priest has been criticised by a judge after giving evidence about the condition of a Catholic man at the centre of a life-support
treatment dispute.
Liberal Democrat Alex Cole-Hamilton said he believed the election of just a "few more" progressive MSPs in next May's Holyrood election is likely to secure
majority support for change.
The son of a police officer was allegedly beaten up by a gang of fellow Muslims for eating a Christmas lunch, with the incident condemned by France's
interior minister as the latest example of Islamist attempts to undermine French values.
Macron is determined to reconcile the demands of a modern multicultural society with the proud philosophical and constitutional values of the French
republic, says John Keiger.
Pro-choice activists celebrated on the streets on Wednesday as Argentina joined a handful of South American nations to legalise abortion, a landmark decision
in a country where the Catholic Church has long held sway.
An Australian woman who has renounced her Islamic faith and campaigns globally for women's rights has been arrested and charged in Tanzania, the country of
her birth.
The company says that it does not have a comprehensive list of religions but it has listed some groups that are protected under its hate speech rules. These
include pastafarians, scientologists, Mormons, Rastafaris, Jehovah's Witnesses and atheists.
At least 14 arrests were made by Pakistani police in overnight raids on Thursday after a century-old Hindu temple was set on fire and razed by a violent
religious mob led by Islamist clerics in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.
Police in Uttar Pradesh have been ordered to crack down on a trend of drivers displaying their caste on bumper or window stickers or custom numberplates.
Human rights activists say the practice has accelerated during lockdowns against the coronavirus, when girls are out of school and more visible, bride
traffickers are more active on the Internet and families are more in debt.
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