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Olga Lucia Alvarez says it is her vocation to be a Catholic priest, and she is not going to let gender or excommunication stop her from preaching the gospel.

• 02 апреля 2015, 14:50

Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the Kingdom of Thailand Marat Yessenbayev has met with a member of the executive committee of the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand to discuss interethnic and religious tolerance.

• 26 марта 2015, 01:26

The King of Jordan Abdullah II has been invited to the 5th Congress of World and Traditional Religions in Astana, Kazakhstan.

• 26 марта 2015, 01:15

Thousands of Salvadorans marched in memory of slain archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated 35 years ago during the country's civil war.

• 25 марта 2015, 10:49

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has spoken about Islam, Orthodoxy and Protestantism during the XVI Congress of Kazakhstan’s Nur Otan party in Astana on March 11.

• 12 марта 2015, 17:45

Two years after Pope Francis swept into the Vatican vowing to shake up the Church, his opponents are playing a waiting game as they seek to put the brakes on his reform drive.

• 12 марта 2015, 10:45

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke about five institutional reforms he envisions for Kazakhstan that would ensure its move towards a developed and harmonious society.

• 11 марта 2015, 23:37

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been invited to take part in the coming Congress of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan in June.

• 07 марта 2015, 19:48

Pope Francis denounced the "intolerable brutality" being inflicted on Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria by Islamic State group militants.

• 02 марта 2015, 10:01

The head of Al-Azhar called for education reform in Muslim countries in an effort to contain the spread of religious extremism.

• 23 февраля 2015, 12:58

Kazakhstan's leader Nursultan Nazarbayev has urged not to associate terrorism with peace-loving Islam or with religion in general.

• 18 февраля 2015, 00:52

A Swedish cartoonist believed to have been targeted in one of the Copenhagen shootings at the weekend has been sent into hiding.

• 17 февраля 2015, 13:22

French President Francois Hollande said that the "same targets" were hit in the weekend attacks in Copenhagen as during the January assault in Paris that claimed 17 lives.

• 16 февраля 2015, 17:18

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged European Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was killed in an attack outside Copenhagen's main synagogue

• 16 февраля 2015, 13:37

A town in the Canadian province of Quebec rejected plans for a mosque after numerous residents expressed "fear" about Islam.

• 14 февраля 2015, 17:15

The death toll in a militant attack on a Shiite mosque in northwest Pakistan rose to 21 after an injured person died of his wounds.

• 14 февраля 2015, 15:16

A right-wing Hindu group that has vowed to marry off unwed Indian couples indulging in public displays of affection may get more than it bargained for this Valentine's Day.

• 14 февраля 2015, 15:00

Pope Francis will bring his message of peace and compassion to politically gridlocked Washington in September when he becomes the first pontiff to address the US Congress.

• 06 февраля 2015, 18:28

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has ordered an investigation into a drawing of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed which appeared in a West Bank newspaper.

• 04 февраля 2015, 10:40

A girl in southern Kazakhstan is prevented from attending school classes unless she takes off her headscarf.

• 29 января 2015, 18:17