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A Greek Orthodox priest was beaten by a pair of Syrian asylum seekers in front of his own church.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek police officer and a church caretaker were injured in an explosion as they investigated a suspicious package outside a church in central Athens early Thursday.

Officials at a Greek Orthodox church in Chicago are hailing a last-minute anonymous donation as a “Christmas miracle” after the donation kept the property from going into foreclosure.

Police arrested a New York City man on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman outside of a New York City church on Monday evening.

A woman in Michigan allegedly shot an intruder in her home Sunday morning while she was getting ready to leave for church.

A chapel in Linz, Austria, is set to blast out the Muslim call to prayer each day throughout the Christmas period as part of an “art installation” aimed at emphasising  “that Islam is a religion of peace.”

Lombardy’s League-led local government has blocked plans to turn a chapel into a mosque after an Islamic group outbid Christians at the auction of a church in Bergamo, northern Italy.

The Venezuelan and Cuban dictators Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel gave a speech at a church in Harlem, New York on Wednesday, despite both being sanctioned by the United States and engaging of decades of anti-religious practice. 

Just two percent of young British adults identify with the Church of England and seven out of 10 people under the age of 24 say they have no religion, research has revealed.

Mexico Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera said abuse victims should be “ashamed” to accuse “men of the Church.”

A church in the French city of Orleans was attacked this week by unknown vandals who set partial fires, vandalised the interior of the building and wrote various “hate tags” according to police.

Those who attend Church are likely to live longer than those who do not, a study has found, in results which may be linked to healthy lifestyle choices made by regular churchgoers. British newspaper The Times reports: “The fruit of the

Transgender people are being encouraged to join the clergy in new Church of England guidance on “honouring LGBT+ people”, aimed at fighting the church’s reputation as “homophobic”.

Arkansans with “enhanced concealed carry” permits are now armed for self-defense in churches, bars, and on college campuses. Those holding an “enhanced” permit can also carry in the State Capitol.

The government of Rwanda has closed thousands of churches and dozens of mosques in a bid to establish tighter state control over religion, following President Paul Kagame’s remarks that his country has too many places of worship.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump went to church on Sunday to celebrate Easter.

St Mary’s Catholic Church in Great Yarmouth was “desecrated” in a satanist attack for the second time in four months.

The Church of England’s most senior clergyman has attacked Brexit and told Britons they must welcome mass immigration in an extraordinary political opinion piece.

Christians turning away from clergy preaching social justice and mass migration haven’t left the church – the church has left them, writes David Kurten.

Three French intelligence agencies are alleged to have had prior knowledge of one of the radical Islamic terrorists involved in the killing of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel in 2016 but due to poor communication, never shared their information.

The 19th century St Lambertus Church in Immerath, Germany, has been torn down despite protests, as mosques and Islamic centres multiply across the country.

Texans licensed to carry firearms may bring their weapons to religious services if specific conditions are met, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton noted Thursday. The official opinion also exempts religious institutions from state fees levied on private organizations which maintain security forces.

BERLIN (AP) — German leaders on Tuesday marked the 500th anniversary since the day Martin Luther is said to have nailed his theses challenging the Catholic Church to a church door, a starting point of the Reformation. German Chancellor Angela

German supermarket giant Lidl has been caught doctoring images of churches to remove their crosses for a second time.

German churches are sheltering hundreds of migrants — including many supposed converts — whose asylum claims have been rejected as illegitimate by the authorities.

A new investigation reveals that a North Carolina fundamentalist church allegedly used student and tourist visas to bring foreign nationals to the United States as slaves.

Nashville’s government is suing to shut down a sex club reportedly posing as a church.

On Friday, Russian prosecutors sought a three-and-a-half year prison sentence for a 22-year-old blogger and charged him with inciting religious hatred for playing “Pokemon Go” in a church.

A group of leftist activists wearing pink pussy hats disrupted a Christian opening prayer at Rep. Jack Bergman’s (R-MI) Thursday evening town hall in Gaylord, Michigan, shouting, “Separation of church and state!” as other constituents stood with their heads bowed in respect.

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court seems poised to strike down constitutional amendments in 39 states that forbid tax money from going to churches after Wednesday’s oral arguments in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, unless two procedural issues derail the case at the last minute.