RELIGION

People set fire to US and Israeli flags and destroyed effigies of Donald Trump in Muslim-majority countries around the globe, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt and Indonesia.

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian stone-throwers traded volleys in the streets with soldiers firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

Man with Palestinian flag smashes windows of kosher restaurant in Amsterdam after Donald Trump recognises Jerusalem as Israeli capital.

City votes in favour of banning Muslim women's swimwear and topless bathing but critics warn it could fuel arguments of Islamaphobe extremists.

Paedophile priest Andrew Soper, formerly known as Father Laurence, found guilty of 19 counts of sexual and physical abuse against boys at St Benedict's Catholic School in Ealing.

The state attorney said that Michael Wolfe was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 15 years probation after vandalising a mosque in central Florida.

"Santa Claus is not real. The man you're going to meet today is a man wearing a suit like a costume and it's make-believe. It's not real," said the pastor.

The Museum of the Bible opened in November after years of debate on how Evangelical backing would affect the institution's final form.

Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.

Muslims around the world are celebrating the birth of the prophet Muhammad, which occurs on the 12th day of Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.

The US President reportedly spoke on the matter for over an hour with aides as the deadline to waive a 1995 law mandating the move looms.

Celebrity designer Toks Daniel created the world's most expensive skullcap with more than 3,500 Swarovski crystals and a two carat diamond atop the Star of David.

The 25-year-old woman, Hadiya, had been living under the guardianship of her parents following a high court order earlier in the year.

Members of the Israeli border police removed settlers one by one from the illegally-built structure in Elazar in Gush Etzion, in the southern West Bank, then began demolishing it.

In his first public Mass in Myanmar, Pope Francis urged the country's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured.

Groups said that the claim Tsar Nicholas II was killed in a 'ritual murder' was an anti-Semitic myth.

Ofsted inspectors fear controversial texts making their way into mainstream schools with help of well-meaning teachers.

The resignation of law minster Zahid Hamid underscores how small Islamist party Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah was able to force the Pakistani government to accept its demands.

Rohingya Muslims are being raped, dispossessed, killed in Myanmar. One cannot hear their stories without red rage.

Israeli blogger Ben Tzion has provoked outrage in the Arab world by posing for a picture in Medina's holy Mosque of the Prophet Muhammed.

The lawsuit says that Cecil Koger had his dreadlocks cut forcibly by the Ohio Department of Rehabilition and Corrections on five occasions.

St Francis Church, part of the Engine Room community centre, was officially opened on 21 November in Tottenham Hale, just around the corner from the scene of the 2011 riots.

Jerusalem's largest cemetery, Har HaMenuchot, is running out of space, but a new underground system of tunnels is being built beneath the mountain to provide 22,000 more graves.

Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Church of Jediism founder Daniel Jones - inspired by Star Wars - explains why he believes it counts as a religion. Piers Morgan disagreed.

Father Desmond O'Donnell of the Cleenish parish has called on his congregation to abandon the word "Christmas" and replace it with something else.

The pontiff's car has a white paint job with gold racing stripes running from the hood to the back of the two-seater.

The bakery giant's advent calendar may have been criticised, but the Gospel of John in particular is full of references to Christ as a foodstuff.

A journalist who was told to starve himself to 'cure his homosexuality' is calling on the government to outlaw 'gay therapy'

The collection includes thousands of biblical texts and artefacts, from fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls and cuneiform tablets to high-tech exhibits and a biblical garden.