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Every cleric in Ireland must commit in writing they will implement child protection guidelines, the church says.

The highest authority in Sunni Islam gives its backing for the first time to an interpretation of the Koran submitted by a woman.

The Pakistani cleric, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, denounces a UN decision to put him on a terror blacklist as leader of a militant front group.

Motorists in a town are to be reimbursed thousands of pounds in fines after a clerical error over two years.

Egypt's top Muslim cleric is under pressure to resign for shaking the hand of the Israeli President, Shimon Peres.

A procession of some 80 Church in Wales clerics and legal officials begins the anointing service for two new bishops.

Malaysia's top Islamic body has banned Muslims from practising yoga, saying it contains corrupting elements of Hinduism.

Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr stage protests in Baghdad against a deal to allow US troops to remain in Iraq.

At least six people have been killed in a blast at the funeral of a Shia cleric in north-western Pakistan, police say.

The Home Office has told an immigration tribunal that Muslim preacher Abu Qatada may be planning to leave the country.

A vicar who told colleagues she was a swinger has been banned from any clerical role for 12 years.

A conference of thousands of Muslim clerics and scholars in India endorses a religious ruling against terrorism.

Police in Puntland arrest a local Muslim cleric in connection with five car-bomb attacks in northern Somalia.

A Muslim cleric sparks anger in Indonesia after marrying a 12-year-old girl in an unofficial religious ceremony.

A Rwandan military court sentences two army captains over the murder of 13 Catholic clerics in the 1994 genocide.

A Muslim cleric calls for extremists who brainwashed the failed Exeter suicide bomber to be brought to justice.

Thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr march in Baghdad against plans to extend the US mandate in Iraq.

Iranian clerics have celebrated the West's economic turmoil, but rising prices could mean capitalism soon "bites back", writes Jon Leyne in Tehran.

Iraq's prime minister says he will find those behind the assassination of an MP loyal to the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

An Iraqi politician loyal to the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is seriously injured in a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad.

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