Topic: Religion — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-15 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Years after civil war drove many Muslims from Sibut, the call to prayer is echoing again from the town’s rebuilt central mosque. Returning residents and Christian neighbours are seeking to restore trust and revive a community once known for peaceful coexistence.
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[2026-08-15 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A text book, shown Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 in Washington, to be used by the Pentagon this fall when they will begin implementing a curriculum that centers on Western civilization and Christianity in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning.
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[2026-08-15 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ‘High coral cover is evidence of recovery and resilience, not evidence that the disturbances causing mortality didn’t happen,’ scientist says
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[2026-08-15 01:00 UTC+10:00] [New South Wales politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Icac hearings delve into links between Catholic Schools NSW and the Reformers, a shadowy group of rightwing Liberal operatives
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[2026-08-14 19:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MOUNT TABOR, Israel — Sister Mayela wears her black veil and habit as she walks to work near where another Catholic nun was violently attacked in Jerusalem's Old City — but she's now accompanied by a Jewish volunteer for protection.
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[2026-08-14 19:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot who was kidnapped in Niger's capital Niamey in October last year, has been released and is in US hands, The New York Times reported late on Thursday, citing two US officials.
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[2026-08-14 19:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: More than 50 Muslim and Christian leaders have signed a new peace accord in Nigeria, aiming to ease religious tensions and promote harmony. The agreement was signed in Abuja, where faith leaders launched a new body focused on cooperation between the country’s two main religious communities.
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[2026-08-14 19:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: The Department of Agriculture Regional Field Office 12 has launched a joint monitoring initiative with local agriculture offices in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and in Cotabato province following reports that government-issued agricultural inputs are being sold online, the Department of Agriculture said in a statement on Friday.
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[2026-08-14 18:09 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: No doubt the stood-aside head of Catholic Schools NSW Dallas McInerney was keen to have his two days of scheduled evidence wrapped up as a corruption inquiry finished its third week.
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[2026-08-14 17:29 UTC+10:00] [Independent Commission Against Corruption] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Independent Education Union ‘deeply concerned … public funding for Catholic schools may have been wrongfully spent on Liberal party matters’
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[2026-08-14 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A Christian pilgrim attends a Mass in the Basilica of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, northern Israel, Aug. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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[2026-08-14 14:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People wait to pray at the main hall at Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead, in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2024, as the country marks the 79th anniversary of its defeat in the World War II. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
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[2026-08-14 14:33 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Catholic Schools NSW boss Dallas McInerney repeatedly insisted he did “due diligence” when negotiating a contract with a fledgling government relations firm set up by Liberal factional allies but failed to notice the consultancy provided him with somebody else’s ABN.
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[2026-08-14 13:22 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A former member of Redeemer Baptist School and Church has told a parliamentary inquiry her sister was placed in a dog collar and pulled by a lead, while another witness described the school as a “criminal gang who uses religion as camouflage”.
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[2026-08-14 09:51 UTC+10:00] [Algorithms] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: The visit comes as the Catholic Church, including Pope Leo XIV, has increasingly focused on the rapidly developing technology.
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[2026-08-14 08:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Religious Schools
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[2026-08-14 08:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Attendees dance during a Yiddish Summer Weimar event on July 24, 2026, in Weimar, Germany. (Shendl Copitman/Religion News Service via AP)
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[2026-08-14 08:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Apple has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the company failed to accommodate a Jewish employee’s observance of Shabbat, and later fired him after he complained of religious discrimination.
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[2026-08-14 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The far-right Religious Zionist Party (RZP) will not aim for political alliances ahead of the next elections and does not intend to run together with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the elections, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told The Jerusalem Post in a Wednesday interview, laying out his plans for the party in the next government.
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[2026-08-14 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-08-13 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PERTH, Australia — An Australian jury on Thursday convicted a former Catholic bishop renowned for hosting alcohol-fueled house parties of sexually abusing two young Indigenous men.
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[2026-08-13 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The residents of Taybeh, a village east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, continue to face settler attacks despite an Israeli military order declaring the surrounding area a closed military zone.
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[2026-08-13 21:10 UTC+10:00] [Malay-Muslim] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The move aims to signal to Malay voters that PAS is committed to Islamic values ahead of the next general election, analysts say
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[2026-08-13 21:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Democratic Senate nominee, who would be the first Muslim senator, has rejected accusations of antisemitism. “My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment to the safety of my own daughters,” El-Sayed said Wednesday morning. (AP video by Ty O’Neil & Mike Householder)
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[2026-08-13 21:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: More than 50 Muslim and Christian leaders have signed an interfaith peace accord in Abuja, launching a new body to promote religious harmony across Nigeria.
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[2026-08-13 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-13 19:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Christopher Saunders, 76, is one of the most senior Australian Catholics to be convicted in a global clergy abuse scandal
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[2026-08-13 19:35 UTC+10:00] [Australian] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Christopher Saunders, 76, is one of the most senior Australian Catholics to be convicted in a global clergy abuse scandal
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[2026-08-13 19:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former Bishop of Broome Christopher Saunders arrives at the West Australian District Court in Perth, Tuesday, Aug.11, 2026. (Aaron Bunch/AAP Image via AAP)
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[2026-08-13 18:59 UTC+10:00] [Western Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Christopher Alan Saunders found guilty of 13 sex offences in West Australian district court on Thursday. He was acquitted of six other charges
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[2026-08-13 16:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top Catholic leader on Thursday expressed condolences to victims of a deadly earthquake in Colombia and said he would pray alongside the faithful of the Korean church for all those affected by the disaster.
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[2026-08-13 14:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: By Chantelle Al-Khouri
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[2026-08-13 13:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US prosecutors announced on Wednesday a hate crime indictment by a federal grand jury against a man who police said had stabbed a Muslim person multiple times in mid-July because of the victim's religion.
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[2026-08-13 12:09 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Follow our live coverage here.
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[2026-08-13 12:08 UTC+10:00] [Independent Commission Against Corruption] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Catholic Schools NSW chief executive Dallas McInerney tells Icac corruption inquiry that Christain factional group driven by ‘a calling … a duty’
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[2026-08-13 12:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The historical and cultural wonders of Beijing are unmistakable, but as the city continues to define itself as a tourist hub beyond its domestic and Asian markets, the destination can still feel like hard work when it comes to halal food.
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[2026-08-13 09:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El puertorriqueño Christian Vázquez felicita a Taylor Trammell, su compañero de los Astros de Houston, tras anotar ante los Gigantes de San Francisco, el miércoles 12 de agosto de 2026 (AP Foto/Jed Jacobsohn)
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[2026-08-13 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: American journalist Tucker Carlson has told RT that he is not afraid of being killed for using his platform to say what he believes is true.
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[2026-08-13 08:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-13 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-13 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A fan wears a promotional pope hat during a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Melissa Tamez)
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[2026-08-13 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A municipal judge’s appointment in a small Mississippi Delta town has drawn social media backlash, from internet trolls and a few Mississippi politicians, because she is Muslim.
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[2026-08-13 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LAST Sunday, I was invited to speak at a parenting seminar at Lighthouse Christian Community in Las Piñas. During the Q&A, an interesting and very practical question was raised to me and another speaker: “How should we handle a child who is being bullied, and what should we tell and teach them?”
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[2026-08-12 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A pilgrim attends an outdoor Mass outside the Church of San Cayetano during the annual pilgrimage honoring Saint Cajetan, the patron saint of work, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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[2026-08-12 15:37 UTC+10:00] [Independent Commission Against Corruption] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood gives evidence about allegations linked to Reformers at Independent Commission Against Corruption hearing
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[2026-08-12 12:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chicago White Sox mascot Southpaw stands on the dugout wearing a pope outfit during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Melissa Tamez)
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[2026-08-12 11:48 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood gave his best mate Jean-Claude Perrottet “kickbacks” from a Catholic Schools NSW contract he secured because he wanted his to boost his friend’s income, a corruption inquiry has heard.
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[2026-08-12 08:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey has joined the growing list of mostly Muslim-majority states that have condemned Colombia's decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights.
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[2026-08-12 06:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has described Democratic candidates in the midterm US elections as “jihadists” in an apparent reference to Muslim Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed securing his party’s nomination for the Michigan primary elections last week.
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[2026-08-12 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The state’s peak body for Catholic schools is under pressure from its own teachers to show greater transparency over funding after allegations that $165,000 was funnelled to right-wing Liberal Party operatives.
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