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Families and friends being to gather to remember loved ones who have passed as part of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead.
Topics: community-and-society, popular-culture, religion-and-beliefs, mexico
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| UpdatedA conference organised by hardline Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir is held for Muslim groups to discuss what they say has been unjustified Government intervention within their community to deal with terrorism.
Topics: terrorism, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, bankstown-2200
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| UpdatedThe Newcastle Muslim Association says opening up its mosque this weekend is all about celebrating diversity and promoting harmony.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, newcastle-2300, wallsend-2287
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| UpdatedMosques around Australia will host an 'open day' this weekend, in an effort to demystify and destigmatise the meeting places for Muslims.
In Melbourne's west, members of the Virgin Mary Mosque say they hope to break some of the public's misconceptions about Islam.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, community-education, community-organisations, hoppers-crossing-3029, vic
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| UpdatedPolice investigate whether a Muslim woman who was assaulted in a random attack outside the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne was targeted because of her religion.
Topics: race-relations, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic
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John Edward is an American psychic, author and TV personality who says scepticism around his ability to “cross over” won’t quash his calling to keep the living and their dead loved ones connected.
Topics: television, grief, religion-and-beliefs, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedVanuatu chiefs and churches are addressing the current political impasse in Vanuatu after failure of the government and the opposition to come up with an agreement on whether to dissolve the parliament or to form a government of national unity .
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, christianity, pacific, vanuatu
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| UpdatedTasmania's only mosque will open its doors this Saturday in a bid to welcome all Hobartians and promote social cohesion.
Topics: community-and-society, education, community-organisations, islam, religious-leaders, religion-and-beliefs, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedMuslims around the world have been called on to rise to the challenge of religious reform in a debate between a prominent atheist and a Muslim activist.
Topics: islam, religion-and-beliefs, australia
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The Hunter's Catholic bishop hopes more people will speak out about sexual abuse, after his Anglican counterpart this week revealed he was a victim.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333
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Pope Francis warns Catholic bishops against turning away from people who do not fit their "scheduled faith", a day after a divisive synod on the Church's attitude to sex, love and marriage ended in stalemate.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, holy-see-vatican-city-state
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| UpdatedNew secrets about one of Launceston's oldest buildings are uncovered in time for its 190th birthday.
Topics: historians, community-and-society, history, religion-and-beliefs, launceston-7250
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Female suicide bombers blow themselves up in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing one other person and injuring several others.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, religion-and-beliefs, nigeria
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| UpdatedAt least one person is dead and nearly 80 wounded in a bomb attack on the main Shiite shrine in the Bangladeshi capital as thousands gather for the annual Ashura procession, police say.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, islam, religion-and-beliefs, bangladesh, pakistan, asia
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Two bomb blasts rip through mosques in Nigeria's restive north-east, killing at least 37 people and injuring more than 100, officials and medics say.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, religion-and-beliefs, nigeria
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| UpdatedAmerican journalist Tony Ortega talks about the perils of reporting on the secretive group.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Anne Summers, Kate McClymont and Michael Jensen. Interview with: Ian Verrender; Tony Ortega.
The panel discusses: interest rate rises; conditions in offshore detention centres; the Church of Scientology; taboo words; golf clubs and myths about the birth order of children.
Topics: banking, money-and-monetary-policy, federal-government, refugees, healthcare-facilities, religion-and-beliefs, golf, children, australia, united-states, papua-new-guinea, nauru
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| UpdatedSacked Islamic College of South Australia chairman Farouk Khan's fight to be reinstated will go to trial in the Supreme Court next month.
Topics: education, religion-and-beliefs, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, croydon-5008, sa
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The Broken Hill Historical Society says the city's heritage mosque is in desperate need of repair.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, immigration, history, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedWARNING: Graphic content. A video obtained by a missionary in PNG appears to show women being tortured over suspicion of practising sorcery in Enga province.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, witchcraft, women-religious, women, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA video showing a number of Papua New Guinean women apparently being tortured over suspicion of practising sorcery has appeared on social media. WARNING: Contains graphic content.
Topics: witchcraft, religion-and-beliefs, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, police, papua-new-guinea, pacific
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| Updated"Religious freedom" is often just a Trojan horse for religious privilege. That's why we should instead be promoting the freedom of all beliefs, including atheistic ones.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, other-religions, community-and-society
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu provokes a Holocaust controversy, saying the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews.
Topics: world-politics, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, religion-and-beliefs, history, race-relations, territorial-disputes, israel
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| UpdatedSix religious leaders in Singapore who used $49.6 million in church funds in a failed bid to turn the pastor's glamorous wife into a global pop star are convicted of fraud.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, religion-and-beliefs, singapore, asia
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| UpdatedAn anti-halal campaigner, a former Army officer and the president of a secretive anti-Islam group are unveiled as the first Senate candidates who will stand for a party set up by controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, multiculturalism, islam, religion-and-beliefs, australia, qld, perth-6000, wa, nsw