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The Vatican is continuing to refuse to co-operate with requests to provide witnesses and evidence about child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church to the IICSA
public inquiry.
Charedi Jewish activist Shraga Stern, who has played a prominent part in recent campaigns against inclusive education, says he has received assurances that
the Labour party will not abolish faith schools. It is unclear whether he was referring to state or private faith schools.
A British court has said it has no power to stop the deportation of a 10-year-old girl at risk of female genital mutilation after authorities rejected her
mother's asylum application.
The Catholic Church in Victoria is facing at least 800 new legal actions for child sexual abuse in the wake of landmark legislation allowing victims to sue
the church and revisit unfair settlements made under in-house compensation schemes.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted a blasphemy accused who was earlier sentenced to death by the trial and high court, two decades after he was
accused.
The Chinese government is harvesting and selling organs from persecuted religious and ethnic minorities on an industrial scale, the UN Human Rights Council
has been told.
Italy's constitutional court has ruled it was not always a crime to help someone in "intolerable suffering" kill themselves, opening the way for a change of
law in the predominantly Catholic country.
Samaritan's Purse is again launching its Christmas shoebox scheme in parts of the UK. The harm done by Operation Christmas Child should prompt a rethink of
this Evangelical group's charitable status, says Megan Manson.
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