Why has Italy's far-right prime minister been trying to keep the pope onside? And the underground religious movement in the Middle East.

Religious tensions persist in Bangladesh as the Prime Minister flees. And the Australian government appoints a special envoy for social cohesion.

France's controversial hijab ban for its own Olympic athletes, plus a theologian and an international human rights lawyer on the moral calculus of war in Ukraine and Gaza. 

Religious diversity at the US ballot box, plus the World Council of Churches faces pressure to expel the Russian Orthodox Church over Ukraine.  

How evangelicals are responding to the attempt on Donald Trump's life, how the decline of Black churches in the US is affecting the Democrats, and the Muslim country that's banning the hijab.

Senator Payman's defection, the Muslim Vote in the UK and Australia, and why the Pope has excommunicated a cleric. 

Today, we're out in Sydney's religiously and culturally diverse west, in Parramatta, to discuss educating for a diverse Australia.

A top military lawyer raises serious questions about the possible involvement of Australian troops in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, and a British Labour MP rediscovers his party's religious and moral history.

In the officially secular nation of France, will the elections become a fight over Muslim piety? And the 51 day stand-off between the FBI and the Branch Davidians cult that came to a fiery end.

Are we seeing the end of Hindu Nationalism in India? And why six in ten Australians voted "No" on the Voice referendum.