A Catholic priest has been jailed following a peace protest against the Iraq war.

The head of the World Council of Churches says that the Gospel needs to be announced in a non-domineering and peaceful way to a divided and violent world. He urges learning lessons from the past.

A new study from the influential Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life charts the major demographic changes in US religious life, especially the impact of the growing Spanish-speaking population.

Many hundreds of thousands of Turks have joined protest for the maintenance of a democratic, religiously neutral government - and opposition either to a military coup or a drift towards Islamism.