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Most of the dead are women or children, say officials, with suggestions a dust storm created panic as thousands were leaving a prayer meeting in Hathras, south-east of Delhi

Deputy PM says Victoria Atkins is ‘star’ and is one of only people he could see leading Tory party

First high-profile candidate due to be announced this week by ‘grassroots’ movement backing independents against Tony Burke and Jason Clare

Gateway founder Robert Morris allegedly told survivor Cindy Clemishire in 2005 to ‘put a price on it’

Ryan Walters calls Bible ‘necessary document to teach kids’ and says Ten Commandments will also be required learning

Scores of highly qualified French citizens from Muslim backgrounds have left the country in recent years

Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was also found guilty of crimes against humanity committed in Mali

Alieu and Isatu Wurie died during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as temperatures exceeded 120F

Gerard Gorman faced unimaginable horror as an 11-year-old boarder in County Armagh. The pain haunted him for decades – then he took on the church

Human rights groups also back filing which aims to block state’s new law forcing public schools to showcase text

Educators on the Fort Apache Reservation have repeatedly condemned teens for participating in a sacred dance. It follows a pattern of Christian discipline begun more than a century ago

I was 10 when the US supreme court ruled against school prayer. Now Louisiana and Texas want to turn back the clock

Riyadh says more than four-fifths did not have permit to make pilgrimage to Mecca, where temperatures hit 51.8C

PM orders 16 companies to be stripped of licences amid hundreds of deaths, many attributed to extreme heat

America’s evangelicals sense a chance to impose a radical agenda and resist what they see as a tide of liberal secularism

West Indians and their families have suffered at the hands of a racist system. Let us use this day to honour their contributions to this country

Dan Patrick pledges to emulate Louisiana with bill that would force schools to display Ten Commandments

People in Lyon say country at dangerous juncture in snap elections after National Rally’s EU parliamentary gains

Hoda Nagib and her husband had walked 20km in the baking sun in Saudi Arabia while on Mecca pilgrimage

Louisiana’s demand to display the religious text in public schools is part of an effort to make the US a theocratic state

Ultra-conservative Carlo Maria Viganò says he is accused of splitting the church and denying pontiff’s legitimacy

The state recently passed a law requiring that all public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom

Law passed requiring text to be displayed in every public school classroom, although lawsuits against it are expected

Relatives seek news of missing loved ones after hundreds reported dead as temperatures hit 51.8C in Saudi Arabia

The good comedian mocks the powerful. And is there anything or anyone more powerful than God? I don’t think so

While conflict has divided communities, a fellowship of married women offers everything from loans to spiritual guidance

Report finds that religious, historical and cultural references have been removed in crackdown by Beijing

At least 320 of the dead are from Egypt and Saudi officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress

Robert Morris, of Gateway church in Dallas, accused of sexual abuse of girl in 1980s, beginning when she was 12

Judges praise disaster-resistant gallery and bridge on Arthur Boyd’s NSW estate and ‘profoundly moving’ place of worship in Sydney’s Punchbowl