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| UpdatedMuslim preacher Junaid Thorne challenges the Australian Federal Police to show any evidence that he is the leader of a local terror cell.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, religion-and-beliefs, islam, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedJakarta's Governer has fronted the press after spending almost nine hours with police over blasphemy allegations linked to last week's violent protest in the Indonesian capital.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, indonesia, asia
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Two Catholic parishes in the Canberra region trial an app that will allow people to make donations via smartphone, potentially replacing the collection plate, in what the local Archdiocese believes could be a world-first.
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia
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The Governor of Jakarta is being questioned by police over blasphemy allegations linked to last week's violent protests in Indonesia's capital.
Topics: world-politics, religion-and-beliefs, law-crime-and-justice, indonesia
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| UpdatedMeet the Canadian minister who has come out as an atheist, but wants to continue leading her congregation at West Hill United Church.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, christianity, atheism, canada
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In the remote mining town of Mt Isa, the Muslim population doesn’t have a mosque and had to meet for worship in their homes or any other space that was available — until a Catholic church came to their rescue in the spirit of unity and goodwill.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, christianity, catholic, islam, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedAs hard as it has tried, the Church of Scientology has yet to avenge a decades-long crusade against it by Rupert Murdoch, writes Steve Cannane.
Topics: non-fiction, religion-and-beliefs, people, offbeat, journalism, australia
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| UpdatedPolice are forced to deploy tear gas as a day of peaceful protests in Jakarta turns violent, as hardline Islamists call for the arrest of the city's Christian governor over comments he made about the Koran.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, islam, government-and-politics, indonesia
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| UpdatedA disused demountable building in the grounds of Mount Isa's Good Shepherd Parish becomes a symbol of interfaith cooperation.
Topics: catholic, islam, religion-and-beliefs, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedAustralians are being warned to stay away from a rally in Jakarta later today with reports extremists may use the protest to conduct acts of violence.
Topics: world-politics, religion-and-beliefs, indonesia
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| UpdatedMyanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces mounting criticism for her government's handling of a crisis in Muslim-majority northern Rakhine State, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, burma, asia
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Halloween is firmly taking hold in Australia too — and not everyone is happy.
Topics: community-and-multicultural-festivals, community-organisations, religion-and-beliefs, family, family-and-children, human-interest, perth-6000
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| UpdatedCardinal George Pell and other senior officials failed to exercise proper care for children in a Melbourne parish by not acting on information of sexual misconduct by a paedophile priest, according to final submissions to the royal commission into child abuse.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, sexual-offences, ballarat-3350, australia, holy-see-vatican-city-state, vic, melbourne-3000
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A restoration team peels away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an attempt to reach what it believes is the original rock surface where Jesus' body was laid.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, archaeology, israel
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| UpdatedThe size of the Muslim population in Papua New Guinea has increased more than ten fold since the turn of the decade, rising from fewer than 500 to more than 5,000 people.
Topics: islam, religion-and-beliefs, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA prominent Vanuatu Presbyterian pastor wants the Muslim faith kept out of the country.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, christianity, pacific, vanuatu
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| UpdatedAustralia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, is interviewed by Victoria Police detectives over historic child abuse allegations.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, catholic, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe Vatican issues new instructions on what must happen to the ashes of Catholics who choose cremation over burial, saying "new ideas contrary to the Church's faith have become widespread".
Topics: death, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, holy-see-vatican-city-state, australia
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| UpdatedControversy brews in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi weighs in on the so-called "triple talaq" law, which allows Muslim men to divorce their wives simply by saying the phrase three times.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, islam, marriage, divorce, world-politics, india
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Having held services in parks and basketball courts for years, the remote Indigenous community of Manyallaluk is rejoicing after their new church — built out of disused materials — finally opens.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, nt
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Prestigious independent Victorian school Geelong Grammar says it wants to encourage survivors of past child abuse at the school who have not yet come forward to contact them for "guidance and support".
Topics: crime, child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, schools, geelong-3220, vic
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| UpdatedYenny Wahid, a well-known Islamic activist and daughter of the former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid, tells the ABC's Samantha Hawley Indonesia has become a more conservative society.
Topics: islam, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, indonesia
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| UpdatedIn Fiji hundreds of people are flocking to the village of Natadradave in Dawasamu, Tailevu to be bathed under water that is said to contain miraculous healing qualities.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedThe head of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria accuses the Greens of being anti-Christian, after Richard Di Natale alleged the Church campaigned against his party during the federal election race.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, greens, political-parties, education, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, australia