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Lava eruptions destroy Hawaii homes, hundreds evacuated amid gas threat

Nearly 2,000 people on Hawaii's Big Island have been evacuated from homes after lava eruptions destroyed five houses and sulphur dioxide gas threatened to harm anyone who stayed in the residential area, officials said.

Anger in France, Britain over Trump's gun law speech

US President Donald Trump sparked anger in France and Britain by suggesting looser gun laws could have helped prevent deadly attacks in Paris in 2015, and linking a wave of knife crime in London to a handgun ban.

France's Macron, after overture to Church, to visit pope in June

President Emmanuel Macron, accused of straining France's secular foundations by saying he wanted to mend ties with the Catholic Church in his country, will travel to the Vatican in June to meet Pope Francis, the Vatican said on Friday.

Trump says date, place set for North Korea summit

President Donald Trump on Friday said the date and location have been set for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, building suspense for the unprecedented talks, as South Korea said it would oppose a withdrawal of US troops from the area.

Israeli troops fire shots, tear gas at Gaza protesters, 1,100 Palestinians hurt

Israeli troops fired live rounds and tear gas at Palestinians who thronged the Gaza-Israel frontier and rampaged at a border terminal on Friday as part of a long-running protest, injuring about 1,100 people.

Hawaii on high alert after day of earthquakes, more lava fissures

Hawaii's Big Island was on high alert on Friday evening after the Kilauea volcano spent a day spewing lava into residential areas, forcing hundreds to evacuate, and a series of earthquakes, included a powerful tremor, shook the island.

Televangelist Jim Bakker: Survive End of the World by buying my condos and $150 water bottles

Controversial televangelist Jim Bakker has claimed that the Missouri town in which he is building a Christian community is equipped to survive the end of the world, and is selling survival gear, such as packs of bottles that cost $150.

Anti-conversion law in another Indian state could be used against churches, campaigners say

A seventh Indian state has enacted a law aimed at restricting people's freedom to convert from one religion to another.

Thy Kingdom Come: It's about evangelism, but not as you know it

Thy Kingdom Come has been designed so that everyone from the yells-bells-and-smells, more-Catholic-than-the-pope brigade to the light-bulb-changing, happiest of happy clappers can take part.

Beth Moore: Male evangelical leaders 'smack of misogyny, objectification and astonishing disesteem of women'

Beth Moore, the prominent US evangelical teacher, has criticised the 'colossal disregard and disrespect of women' shown by male Christian leaders.

Otto Warmbier's mother Cindy speaks out on North Korea: 'You can't negotiate, you just have to shame them'

The parents of Otto Warmbier, the student who died following his imprisonment in North Korea, have spoken out against negotiations with the regime of Kim Jong Un.

UN guilty of 'overall failure to protect religious freedom', claims report

The United Nations is failing to protect religious freedom and guard against the rise in anti-conversion laws, a damning report launched next week claims.

CAR in national mourning as Christian-Muslim violence sees 24 killed, 170 injured

Three days of national mourning have been announced by the president of the Central African Republic (CAR) after an attack on a church in Bangui that killed 16 Christian worshippers, and subsequent violence that has seen eight more killed and 170 injured. The Archbishop of Bangui condemned and lamented the ongoing sectarian violence in the country.

Church of England launches French service for London's 300,000 Francophones