A Supreme Court trial has heard a man accused of murdering his three-year-old son and dumping the body in a mine shaft in the outback was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed his son was possessed by the devil.

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The Catholic Church in Poland is investigating claims of a miracle after a piece of communion wafer was reported to have been transformed into human heart tissue after falling into water during a mass.

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A controversial counselling centre linked to the evangelical Hillsong church says bad publicity has eroded its funding to the point where it is now shutting down completely.

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Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning writer-director whose credits include "Crash," "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters From Iwo Jima," has left the Church of Scientology.

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THE EXCLUSIVE Brethren Church is being rocked by accusations that it has covered up a "plague" of sexual abuse in its ranks.

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A PHARMACIST has stopped selling contraceptives because of his strong religious beliefs.

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An alleged sexual predator said to belong to the Exclusive Brethren religious sect is on trial for raping a younger male relative in Tasmania.

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A Polish court has awarded $11,000 (7,400 euros) in damages to a woman likened to a child killer by a Catholic magazine for wanting an abortion.

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Intolerance is a bitter beast. There are many groups in America that are subject to discrimination and prejudice, but none are more hated than atheists.

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A Bolivian religious fanatic who claimed he had a bomb briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City.

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Ten Maryland nuns — almost an entire religious community — converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism on Thursday, saying their former denomination had become too liberal in its acceptance of homosexuality.

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A secular group was today demanding that tourism groups stop promoting what it calls a "creationist" zoo, that questions the traditional view of evolution.

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Police responded Sunday to a 911 hang-up call at the church of a mayoral candidate where two women said they were assaulted because of their sexual orientation.

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THE Liberal Party has admitted helping an Exclusive Brethren member to campaign against the Greens after earlier denying any involvement with the reclusive sect.

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AUSTRALIAN Greens leader Bob Brown has called for an inquiry into the extent of the Exclusive Brethren's influence in federal politics.

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd famously labelled the Exclusive Brethren (EB) a "cult" while in Opposition. But it seems that, in Government, he is more generous to the Christian sect.

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A Tasmanian transgender activist has won an apology from Exclusive Brethren members after the 2006 publication of state election advertisements attacking transgender and intersex people.

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A group of Polish nationalists has condemned a planned weekend concert by Madonna in Warsaw, branding her a "crypto-Satanist" who wants to insult the Christian religion.

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Bill Dembski's Intelligent Design course at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has some interesting course requirements.

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A 16-year-old boy who stabbed his father to death and seriously wounded his mother before school one morning was hearing the devil's voice, a court has been told.

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Police in northern Nigeria say they have found another group of women and children abducted by the Boko Haram sect, locked in a house in Maiduguri.

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An anti-abortion activist pleaded not guilty today to opening fire on late-term abortion provider George Tiller after a witness gave chilling testimony that he saw the alleged shooter point a gun at the Kansas doctor's head before pulling the trigger.

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They have launched co-ordinated attacks across northern Nigeria, threatening to overthrow the government and impose strict Islamic law - but who exactly are the Nigerian Taliban?

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Rocky Joe and Leon Houston got their wish on Thursday. The next time they come to court, they could be alone at the defense table.

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Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher who built a multimillion-dollar ministry and became an outfitter of the stars, was convicted Friday of taking girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex.

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