clergymen


BBC News website's guide to the honours system.

The campaign to free Michael Shields mounts as the High Court decision of a judicial review to pardon jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields is announced.

The Archbishop of Wales presides over a service to anoint two new bishops at Llandaff Cathedral.

A US federal appeals court rules that a lawsuit against the Vatican over claims it covered up decades of child sex abuse can go ahead.

A clergyman denied a civic honour by a council is described as "one of the bravest people to emerge from the Troubles".

An Indian government team criticises the state government of Karnataka for not taking measures to stop attacks on churches and clergymen.

Two more churches are vandalised in the southern Indian state of Karnataka as tensions continue over conversions to Christianity.

A mob attacks a police station in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, killing a policeman and taking several others hostage.

Police in the southern Indian state of Karnataka arrest more than 60 people after attacks on churches and clergymen.

As a football league match was played on a Sunday in Northern Ireland for the first time, BBC Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson went along to hear the views on both sides.

A Nottinghamshire vicar sets up a business selling Fairtrade clergy shirts.

David Cameron says he wants to be the Thatcher of social reform but his rhetoric is reminiscent of a more recent PM.

Church leaders in Omagh say they will only attend the 'official' 10th anniversary service for victims of the Real IRA bomb.

The BBC's Charles Haviland reports on an unusual 'restaurant' in Nepal where the clientele are vultures and the menu consists of rotting meat

Iraqi leader Nouri Maliki, after meeting the Pope in Italy, urges Christians who have fled the country to return home.

Pope Benedict XVI meets victims of child sex abuse by Catholic clergy at the end of his visit to Australia, the Vatican says.

The Pope apologises for the "evil" abuse of children by priests in Australia, as Catholic pilgrims gather for a papal vigil.

US civil rights leader the Rev Jesse Jackson apologises for "crude" remarks about presidential candidate Barack Obama.

An Italian-born businessman invented Vatican connections as part of a property fraud, according to New York prosecutors.

Traditionalists in the Anglican Church express anger over a ceremony said to be the Church's first gay wedding.

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