Legal restrictions imposed for Pope Benedict's visit to Sydney this week, which could see protesters arrested for "annoying" Catholic pilgrims, are unconstitutional, the Australian Federal Court has ruled.

A set of ten action points has been issued by a Christian agency suggesting ways that failed asylum seekers and refugees can be helped. Churches and others in the UK are being urged to visit detainees in removal centres.

The managing director of one of the world's most illustrious football clubs, Barcelona FC, has joined other Spanish philanthropists in donating a statue of the Black Madonna to St Aloysius' Roman Catholic Church in Glasgow.