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On Friday Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and leader of the worldwide Catholic Church, met with Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, at the José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba. The meeting was the first in history between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch. With Francis wearing the...

Yesterday Iceland abolished its law against blasphemy, following a campaign by the country's Pirate Party (Píratar) launched in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack. The Althing, Iceland's parliament, repealed Article 125 of the General Penal Code, which prohibited anyone 'mocking or insulting the dogmas or worship of a lawfully existing religious community'. The Pirate Party holds three of sixty-three seats in the...

He is Ireland's outstanding patron saint, conventionally held to have brought Christianity to the country in 432, and his feast day every 17 March is the cause for commemoration and revelry throughout the world - but remarkably little can be stated with any degree of certainty about the life of Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on the traditional date...