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Parents of toddler with cancer taking things 'one step at a time, one prayer at a time'
Parents of toddler with cancer taking things 'one step at a time, one prayer at a time'

Death row inmate called on Jesus, spared from execution
Death row inmate called on Jesus, spared from execution

American Atheists are trying to put people off going to church this Christmas with new billboard campaign
American Atheists are trying to put people off going to church this Christmas with new billboard campaign

Around 100 brains go missing from the University of Texas
Around 100 brains go missing from the University of Texas

Girl tries to thank God on Disney Channel website but says it got blocked as profanity
Girl tries to thank God on Disney Channel website but says it got blocked as profanity

Humanist group takes school district to court over prayers
Humanist group takes school district to court over prayers

American couple acquitted of murder in Qatar free to return to US
An American couple held in Qatar following the acquittal of charges against them for the death of their adopted daughter, are due to return home to the US today.

Woman prayed for dead husband's resurrection until his body had decomposed in the bedroom
A Canadian woman was found guilty of failing to inform authorities of her husband's death for six months, as she had been praying fervently for his resurrection.

Three Delaware churches targeted in arson attack
Three churches set alight in the early hours of Tuesday near Felton in Delaware have been ruled an arson by investigating officers.Â

Brave soldier who died in Helmand is remembered in stained glass window
Daniel Read's father has created a memorial in their parish church.

Christian teenager goes on hunger strike in Hong Kong protests
The Christian student leader of the pro-democracy protests has begun a hunger strike, defying calls from other protest leaders to retreat.

Tributes to Fred Catherwood, leading evangelical politician
Signficant life of public service was rooted in Christian faith.

Sudan: Church destroyed and young people arrested, pressure increases on Christians
Pastor claims it is a "humiliation of all Sudanese Christians".

Iraq says woman detained in Lebanon is not wife of Islamic State leader
Iraq's Interior Ministry has said that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister of a man convicted of bombings in southern Iraq.

Republican Speaker struggles to avoid government shutdown over immigration
John Boehner argues with hardliners furious over Obama's executive action.

Israel's coalition government breaks up, elections could see right wing advance
Polls place Benjamin Netanyahu ahead as country heads to ballot boxes.