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An Italian priest has cancelled his town's annual Nativity scene over fears it may offend the Muslim community.
Father Sante Braggie, a chaplain in Cremona, northern Italy, said the scene would have been set up near a section of the city's cemetery 'reserved for Muslim graves'.
The decision has caused outrage in the town with councillors said to be trying to persuade the priest to change his mind.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people, in a statement circulated on social media on Tuesday.
Isil identified the suicide bomber who carried out Sunday's attack by the pseudonym Abu Abdallah al-Masri.
The bomber "got in between the crowd" and detonated his explosive belt, the jihadist group said in the statement.
Three players are in contact with the Football Association about coming out as gay, according to MP John Nicolson.
He made the comments during a Department of Culture, Media and Sport hearing into homophobia in sport.
The BBC understands the FA disputes the MP's comments - though it says it would support any players who chose to.
In October, FA chairman Greg Clarke told MPs that Premier League players would suffer "significant abuse" if they chose to reveal they are gay.
Oxford University’s student union has said it had not told students to use gender pronouns such as “ze” instead of “he” or “she”, calling such a move “totally counterproductive”.
A number of reports at the weekend said the student union had issued a leaflet telling students to use gender neutral pronouns such as “ze” in order to stop transgender students being offended.
A denial published on the OUSU website said: "As far as we’re aware, the information which has been published is incorrect. We have not produced a leaflet implying that all students must use 'ze' pronouns to refer to others, or indeed to themselves."
More than 170,000 human embryos were destroyed in the UK between 2014 and 2015, it has been revealed.
Responding to a question in the House of Lords, a Government Minister indicated that 172,184 embryos were discarded between July 2014 and June 2015.
The Minister also highlighted the total number of embryos destroyed since the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. Up until the latest figures, in June last year, 2,315,262 embryos were discarded.
For more than four decades, the abortion industry has engaged in an unrelenting and corrupt crusade to force a regime of unapologetic, unregulated, and unrestricted abortion-on-demand on an unwilling American public. In pursuit of this goal, abortion advocates have repeatedly advanced misinformation and have often recruited others to participate in their remorseless campaign of dishonesty.
The most prominent and influential target of this strategic manipulation is the Supreme Court, which delighted abortion advocates in June when it struck down Texas’s requirements that abortion clinics comply with medically endorsed health and safety standards and that abortion providers maintain hospital admitting privileges to facilitate emergency care and the treatment of post-abortion complications.
What is the nature and status of the human embryo? This is a deep question which has engaged great minds for many centuries. It draws together the natural sciences and philosophy and, for some, also theology. It is a matter on which individuals and peoples and nations differ, as is evident from the divergent laws in Western democracies. If we think the answer to this question is obvious then the danger is that we are merely reflecting uncritically the ideas of our own culture and of our own circle. If we do not look seriously outside this circle then there is every chance that we will overlook the significance of these embryonic lives.
Published December 2016
In this response we welcome and support beneficial and ethical applications of genome editing on somatic cells but emphasise that these must be distinguished from those that modify germ cells. We set out concerns about germline editing and highlight the lack of compelling medical applications for using it, including in human embryos.
They were dancing and singing praises to the Lord when death came crashing down.
Hundreds of worshippers were inside Reigners Bible Church International in Uyo, Nigeria on Saturday when metal girders buckled and, together with the corrugated tin roof, crashed onto them, killing at least 160 people, NPR reported.
There were plenty of survivors, each one thankful to God for sparing their lives.
Republican Governor John Kasich signed a 20-week abortion ban into law on Tuesday but vetoed stricter legislation that would have forbidden the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks after conception.
Kasich, an abortion opponent, said in a statement that the proposed six-week legislation would be contrary to U.S. Supreme Court rulings on abortion, opening the state to potentially costly legal battles, and the veto was "in the public interest."
"I agree with Ohio Right to Life and other leading, pro-life advocates that SB 127 is the best, most legally sound and sustainable approach to protecting the sanctity of human life," Kasich said in a statement on the 20-week law, which lawmakers approved last week.