Forgive me for not being my usual liberal self when I read that a group of local Sikhs are getting over-excited about not being allowed carry ceremonial daggers.

Labour's ethnic communities spokesman Phil Goff is calling for the Government to clarify where and when Sikhs can wear a kirpan.

A New Zealander jailed for insulting religion in Myanmar says he will appeal against his conviction.

The HRC has received a complaint of alleged unlawful discrimination on the grounds of religion on the wearing of kirpan at Cricket World Cup venues.

Seven Sikh cricket fans were barred from entering Eden Park to watch India play Zimbabwe in a Cricket World Cup match on Saturday because they were wearing kirpans.

The freedom to pop out for a pizza is the main thing Pope Francis misses two years after being elected the head of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

The daughter of Gloriavale leader Neville Cooper, who walked out of the commune after 41 years, says the latest family to leave face a hard road.

75: It was late in the day before New Zealand appointed war artists to document the conflict.

A family of 14 have walked out on a West Coast religious commune to start a new life after concluding they had been living in a “false system”.

Two grieving Dunedin mothers are heartbroken after "scumbags" targeted mementoes on their children's graves.

Paul Little writes: Cognitive dissonance describes that uncomfortable feeling we get when reality doesn't match what we believe. And isn't that most of the time?

Somehow the word 'American' makes it not only acceptable but epic, admirable, even glorious and certainly ordained by a Christian God, especially given that Clint Eastwood directed.

New Zealand troops are preparing for a two-year tour in Iraq to help the fight against Islamic State. This is what they are up against.

When I was a young, innocent choirboy, I was acutely aware of the stern rhetoric on the perils of sin, delivered by my local Anglican vicar.

An Anglican cleric who controversially told Jews last month the holocaust "should have taught them a lesson" has been stripped of his title as bishop.

A New Zealander who advises Pope Francis on combating sexual abuse has criticised the pontiff's support of smacking children.

Women who undergo plastic surgery are wearing a "burqa made of flesh", according to a Vatican document.

Saudi officials deny they blurred out US First Lady Michelle Obama, but her decision not to wear a headscarf, and don blue, not black at the late King's funeral, is controversial.

For the dwindling band who still remember the horrors, it was possibly the last time they would gather to remind the world of their story.

The first female Church of England bishop described her consecration service as an “occasion of prayer and of party”.

In Europe and even parts of the United States, Jews report rising levels of the "oldest hatred". And we aren't immune from the subject here in New Zealand, writes Inge Woolf.

Women are far more likely to believe in God than men, a major study of attitudes among middle-aged Britons has found.

At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in the West African nation of Niger over the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

The role of British female jihadists in inciting terrorism in the UK has been uncovered by the ICSR which has identified a group of around 30 female Britons based in northern

Freedom of expression requires there to be a freedom not to say, not to publish certain things.

Pope Francis has said there are limits to freedom of expression and that anyone who ridicules someone else's religion could deserve a punch.