Angry parents of the Islamic college at Croydon in Adelaide, which has lost government funding and might be forced to close, say the school should have ensured all taxpayers' money went into schooling and not elsewhere.
St Patrick's College in Ballarat, infamous for its history of child sexual abuse, is determined to make amends and become a leader in child protection.
The Catholic Church reveals which schools and children's homes had more than 20 claims of child sexual abuse — one institution alone faced 219 accusations.
By South-East Asia correspondent Liam Cochrane, wires
Hundreds of police are searching a giant Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Bangkok in the hunt for a former abbot facing charges of conspiracy to launder money.
A "wickedly manipulative" serial paedophile priest is sentenced to stay behind bars until at least 2026 for the sexual abuse of boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst in central west NSW.
Close to 4,500 people made claims for alleged incidents of child sexual abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 but the earliest incidents reported to a claim were in the 1920s, the child abuse royal commission hears.
Federal funding for the Islamic College of South Australia will be cut off from mid-April after the school failed to meet conditions imposed by the Commonwealth.
A recent IS video threatening three Muslim leaders is condemned by the Australian National Imams Council, which it says proves the terrorist group is not representative of their Islamic faith.
A lifelong obsession with Catholicism is one of the main themes in Martin Scorsese's latest film, as he continues what he calls a search for the spiritual human condition.
Outspoken independent senator Jacqui Lambie gets into a shouting match over sharia law with Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a former Queensland Young Australian of the Year, on Q&A.
Tasmania's Anglican Bishop takes disciplinary action against Philip Newell — a bishop in Tasmania for 18 years — who was found to have allowed a man he knew had sexually abused boys to stay in the church.
Victoria University says it is reviewing its administrative procedures after its Flinders Street campus building was used to hold a fundraising dinner for an anti-Islam organisation last week.
Former Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth is found by the royal commission into child abuse to have prioritised the needs of an abusive rector over those of one of his victims and other children at risk.
The Myanmar military may have killed "thousands" of Rohingya Muslims in a campaign of rape and destruction described as ethnic cleansing by the United Nations.
One of Australia's most senior Catholics, Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge, says he does not know how many priests break their vows of celibacy, and does not think it is appropriate to question them.
A Buddhist monk is arrested in Myanmar after a grenade, ammunition and more than four million methamphetamine pills are found by authorities in his car and in his monastery.
A defamation case between a halal certifier and an anti-halal campaigner in the NSW Supreme Court is being closely watched by some of the country's highest profile conservative politicians.
The Catholic Church confirms more than $200,000 has been paid to victims of sex abuse perpetrated by members of the Diocese of Sale, in eastern Victoria.
