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'Human life is sacred from conception': Irish church appeals for vote against change to abortion law

The Irish Catholic Church has appealed for people to vote against a change to the abortion law, emphasising that 'human life is sacred from conception' and urging voters to preserve the 'equal right to life of the mother and her unborn child'.

Mysterious Voynich manuscript is in HEBREW, say scientists using AI

An ancient manuscript that has baffled scholars for centuries is on the verge of being deciphered after computing scientists discovered it was written in Hebrew.

Anti-gay Arizona pastor who called for death of Obama banned from Jamaica

A Holocaust-denying and anti-gay pastor from Arizona has been denied entry into Jamaica after outcry from activists on the island.

Trump's Afghanistan strategy under spotlight after 11 dead in fourth attack on Kabul

Donald Trump's strategy in Afghanistan is under the spotlight after 11 soldiers were killed in the fourth major attack on the capital Kabul in the last nine days.

What Barack Obama's Christianity can teach white evangelicals

Evangelicals may find such attention as they received from Barack Obama more hard to come by after the Trump era takes its full toll.

'How are we to live?': Afghan capital in shock after ambulance bomb kills over 100

Kabul reacted in despair and fear on Sunday, a day after a suicide bomb killed more than 100 people and wounded at least 235 in the worst attack seen in the Afghan capital in months.

Oprah Winfrey news: Not interested in running for president in 2020

A report on a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, discussing her possible presidential campaign

Taliban ambulance bomb kills at least 95, wounds more than 150 in Kabul

A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint.

2018 iPad Pro rumors: iOS 11. 3 firmware teases Face ID

Strings of code recently discovered from the iOS 11.3 beta subtly hint at an iPad with Face ID, supporting Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo's earlier claims about the biometric tech and TrueDepth Camera system's arrival to the iPad Pro this year.

Evangelicals celebrate Trump's announcement of pathway for Dreamers

Evangelicals leaders are celebrating Donald Trump's announcement of a 'pathway' that could allow hundreds of thousands of people, brought into the US illegally as children, to apply for citizenship.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury accuses Davos elite of 'serious failure' to address poverty

Using GDP as a measure to relieve poverty is an experiment that has failed, world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos this are being told by the charity Christian Aid.

German Catholic bishops reject Pope's re-translation of the Lord's Prayer

Catholic bishops in Germany have rejected Pope Francis' controversial suggestion of re-translating the Lord's Prayer. The Pope said in December that the Church should follow the adoption of French Catholics, who render 'lead us not into temptation' as 'do not less us enter into temptation'.

US refugee agency damns Trump's travel ban as 'net loss' that hurt persecuted Christians

World Relief, one of America's largest refugee resettlement agency has given a statement damning to the Trump administration, one year after Trump's infamous 'travel ban' on refugees was effected. The organisation said that needy refugees, including many Christians, had been denied 'a place of refuge and hope' in what was unequivocally a 'net loss' for the US.

Congo Cardinal likens his country to an 'open prison' following deadly crackdown on Church-backed protests