A cross-party parliamentary committee on human rights has said that the laws barring members of the Royal Family from marrying Catholics is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The latest in a series of ecumenical initiatives spearheaded by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and his Church of Ireland counterpart will see 100,000 copies of the Gospel of Luke distributed throughout the Irish capital.

Catholic and Protestant worshippers in Haiti’s capital yesterday met for their first Sunday services since the earthquake struck last Tuesday.

Buckfast wine, which is produced by monks in a monastery in Devon, is to the focus of a BBC programme which examines how it may affect the behaviour of consumers and its possible links with violence.

Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 in St Peter's Square, has been released from prison in the Turkish capital Ankara having completed his sentence.

The Pope is to make an historic visit today to Rome’s main synagogue, the spiritual home of the oldest Jewish community in the world outside Israel.

The three suspects in a drive-by shooting that killed seven people outside an Egyptian Coptic church in early January are to be tried in an emergency state security court.

Labour’s Ed Balls has criticised Conservative plans to give married couples a tax break as "social engineering" which risks stigmatising children.

The President of Haiti has called on the international community to coordinate the aid efforts for his stricken country better and stop the rows over how to provide it.

The row over the use of the word 'Allah' by non-Muslims in Malaysia continues to rumble as another church was vandalised today.