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Illinois community coming together to purchase Pope's old home
Debt-hit town in Illinois is looking to buy the Pope's childhood home.

Christians urged to keep up pressure against assisted suicide and unlimited abortion
Neither measure has yet become law.

On striving for destiny
Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on Numbers, leadership and destiny.

Divorce at 50-year low despite liberalising reforms
The Marriage Foundation has welcomed figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), saying they show that marriages are the strongest they have been for 50 years.

Pope Leo XIV calls for global solidarity with Eastern Churches amid conflict and crisis
“How can we think that we are laying the foundations of the future apart from cooperation and a global vision inspired by the common good?"

British media preoccupied with Catholic Church - report
A study into media coverage of Christianity in Britain has showed that coverage is more likely to take a negative tone towards the faith and is arguably biased towards coverage of the Roman Catholic Church.

Colombian militant group accused of murdering 8 religious and social leaders
Not everyone agreed to the 2016 peace deal.

China imprisons church leaders on 'unfounded' fraud charges
"Our brothers did not commit fraud, and the offerings of our church are not fraud."

Churches should open in summer to prevent knife crime
A Christian coalition said that knife crime among young people tends to spike in the summer months. It says churches can be part of the response.

Three-year restoration of Lambeth Palace completed
Three year project makes Lambeth Palace more friendly to the environment and the disabled.

Priest refuses communion to MP who backed assisted suicide
Is communion to given to anyone who wants it, to be regarded as holy or used as a political tool?

Who was really behind the Syria church bombing?
The situation in Syria remains dangerously opaque.

Jimmy Swaggart, famed televangelist brought down by scandal, dies at 90
Jimmy Swaggart, the popular Pentecostal preacher and televangelist who garnered national headlines for his extramarital affairs, has died at the age of 90 following a cardiac arrest.

Faith leaders say taxing rich will bring down energy bills, help environment
The call is, not for the first time, to tax the rich

Who were the Anabaptists?
This year is the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Anabaptist movement - a chapter in Christian history that is not so well known.

Fears for free speech in Europe
The Alliance Defending Freedom International has warned that free speech in Europe is facing its gravest threat since the days of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.