Religion

LONDON – Pope Benedict XVI today apologised to five people who were molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking his church, as thousands of people angered […] […]

POPE Benedict XVI will continue his historic visit to Britain despite six street cleaners arrested on suspicion of plotting a “terrorist” attack. The Vatican insisted that the Pope was “calm” following the alert and that […] […]

FOR more than 15 years, former Catholic priest Peter Chalk had been living a quiet life in a secluded Japanese village in the shadows of Mount Fuji. Although fluent in Japanese, Chalk largely kept to […] […]

BEING in a relationship where one partner is promiscuous can be very distressing for the other person. And while there is the emotional conflict to deal with, there is also the health problems that can […] […]

THE Pope last night warned Britain against “aggressive forms of secularism” at the start of the first state visit by a pontiff to that country since 1534. Welcoming Benedict XVI to Edinburgh, the Queen said […] […]

ONE of the Pope’s senior advisers pulled out of the visit to Britain in controversial circumstances over a German magazine interview in which he described the UK as a Third World country marked by “aggressive […] […]

NEW YORK—This year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks promises to be the most political and contentious ever, because of a proposed Islamic centre and mosque near ground zero, and a Florida pastor’s plan […] […]

THOUSANDS of rock-pelting Afghans have assaulted a NATO military outpost as fury builds across the Muslim world against a US pastor’s threats to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In […] […]

THE small Florida church that has sparked global outrage with its plan to hold a Koran-burning event has had its website pulled from the internet by its host. Dan Goodgame, a spokesman for the San […] […]

THE global police agency Interpol has warned that if a US church group makes good on a threat to burn copies of the Koran it will probably trigger terrorist attacks across the world. Interpol Secretary-General […] […]