Pauline Hanson has failed in her bid to be elected to the upper house of the NSW parliament.

Chat sessions with monks provide a rare insight into their lives, says Kate Roff.

A spiritual leader with close links to New Zealand has been convicted on 20 counts of indecency with children in the United States.

A pizza company has upset people over an advertising campaign that compares its limited-edition hot cross buns to Jesus.

Jada Pinkett Smith refutes reports she is a Scientologist.

There is a current of anti-Muslim feeling in Australia that suggests an entrenched hostility often related to overseas events.

That was Skeptics Society chair Vicki Hyde's response to billboards claiming the world will end on May 21.

Sydney lawyer and author of Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-facist writes that republican-steered terrorism hearings entirely off the mark.

Simon Sebag Montefiore tells Stephen Jewell about writing ‘the greatest story ever told’ and why the history of Jerusalem is the story of the world.

I've always found ancient places of worship to be strangely moving. Probably it's because the dominant role of organised religion in bygone times meant the greatest talents of the age were harnessed to make these churches.

The murder of second official stops any immediate chance of blasphemy law reform.

A message from the Pope was read out at a special service to pray for safety in the days ahead.