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Although Christians are generally a tiny minority in India, overall representing just 2.3 percent of the population, Arulraj said there are pockets within Tamil Nadu in which movement of Christian votes from one party to the other “could definitely make a difference.”

In the US, women are more likely to say religion is very important to them and to pray more often. The trend has become so marked that some churches are even changing their decor, music and worship styles in an attempt to attract more men.

Following weeks of controversial debate it is thought that doctrine towards divorcees will be softened but there will not be change surrounding how the Church feels about homosexuality.

The letter says: “many Christian refugees, having been terrorised by IS in Syria and Iraq, have had to leave the refugee camps because of cruelties inflicted upon them inside the camps”.

HOW much does it cost to preach the gospel to the world? One televangelist will argue that the exact price is $65 million...and that is just the cost of the private jet without fuel. What?!

"This filthy blood is what awaits you, in revenge for Camelia and her sisters," said a caption on the video. The video ends with an image of the Christians' blood flowing in the Mediterranean Sea.

CLOSE to 300 Muslim students armed with iron bars and sticks attacked a Christian boys' school in northern Pakistan, reportedly in retaliation to French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's controversial drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

Bishop Fernando he had met president-elect before the vote as apt of a delegation of bishops. He had shown his program of good governance, with the fight against corruption and commitment to development and reconciliation, the bishop said.

THE two spiritual leaders followed the Doxology Service, a prayer for thanksgiving and peace. They also blessed the crowd in the Patriarchal Cathedral.

MOORE, the public face of the Southern Baptist Convention, said sexual liberation had created “a culture obsessed with sex” that had simply led to a “boredom of sex shorn of mystery.”