President Joe Biden said it's time for the political rhetoric to cool down in a speech from the Oval Office. (Scripps News)

Catherine Bond (left) and Jane Pearce (right) have become one of the first same-sex couples to be blessed in a church following a service at St John the Baptist church in Felixstowe, Suffolk.



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A couple have become one of the first same-sex partnerships to receive a blessing at a Church of England service.



Prayers of love and faith were granted to Catherine Bond and Jane Pearce on Sunday morning, celebrating...

Faith leaders including the Archbishop of Canterbury have urged peace between faith communities in the UK, as they delivered joint statements of solidarity at Lambeth Palace amid the Israel-Hamas war.



Justin Welby said that...

Bloomberg's Margaret Collins and Gregory Korte discuss the latest US CPI numbers that show inflation pressures starting to ease while at the same time most Americans say they aren't feeling the decrease in inflation that markets are....

President Joe Biden said he was rushing federal support to Hawaii after deadly wildfires tore through the island of Maui, vowing to quickly help people affected. Biden spoke Thursday in Salt Lake City.



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Social protection minister Heather Humphreys said a secondary school “Debs” celebration in Co Monaghan turned into the “worst possible nightmare” after two teenage girls were killed in a crash.



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Ravana Phadi is one of the oldest rock cut cave temples in Aihole, located less than a kilometer uphill, northeast from the Durga temple complex. The temple dates to the 6th century. The entrance has an eroded fluted column and seated...

Staff at Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham disinfects prayer rooms ahead of Eid al-Fitr. Usually, thousands of worshippers would attend the Eid in the Park celebration.



Due to Covid-19 restrictions, Green Lane is holding six...

At Westminster Abbey a service of thanksgiving for the victory in the Battle of Britain 25 years ago. Also pictures of the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Sir Winston Churchill by Her Majesty the Queen. Disclaimer: British Movietone...

Our pictures show Pope Paul on his tour of the Holy Land, he meets President Shazar at Megiddo. He then meets the Chief Rabbi who made the traditional offering of bread and salt. The journey was made to ""implore divine mercy on behalf...

Baumblütenfest, Werder 1924-1928. People leaving the city for the festival, arriving at the event and enjoying the blossom.

The city of Altötting is located in Bavaria, Germany. For over 500 years the city has been the most important pilgrimage site in Germany for Our Lady. The film records scenes of pilgrimage with hundreds of pilgrims. We watch a procession...

The gunfire broke out around 5 p.m. Thursday along the Neuse River Greenway in a residential area northeast of downtown Raleigh.

Pollachi is a town and a taluk headquarters in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu state, India. Located about 40 km to the south of Coimbatore and 60 km to the south of Tiruppur. It is the second largest town in the district after...

Hundreds of bereaved relatives and NHS key workers attend a Westminster Abbey service remembering those who died during the coronavirus pandemic.



Church officials blessed trees and saplings before they will be planted in a...

France, Mont Saint-Michel

A man arrested in connection with the suspected murder of a young woman in Co Offaly is to face further questioning.



The woman has been named locally as Ashling Murphy, a primary school teacher in

Tullamore.

She...

Court watchers say the Kennedy case reversed the lemon test, a Supreme Court standard for whether an action is violating the establishment clause.

The grandiose Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, a quintessential example of the very best Mughal architecture. Colour corrected.

The grandiose Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, a quintessential example of the very best Mughal architecture

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, said she was getting better in her first public statement released Monday. VOICED - Malala, in video message, says 'getting...

Jun.14 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, talks about the shooting at a congressional baseball practice in Del Ray, Virginia that wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and four others. He speaks with Bloomberg's...

"For me, personally, prayer and meditation are great boons to my life and help me navigate my way through this world, and I don’t want to dissuade others who find those things useful," the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director said.