Places of Worship Re-opening

By Lianne Kolirin Congregations have quietly celebrated the news today that places of worship in England have been allowed to reopen for private prayer. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Cardinal Vin Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, prayed together in Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, socially distanced, to […]

Unimpressed Catholics may hold key to Trump’s future

By Rosie Dawson, 15 June 2020 As Donald Trump’s poll ratings wobble all attention is focused on the white evangelical voters who delivered him the White House in the presidential election of 2016. But could it be the white Catholic vote which is decisive this time round? At the beginning of March, support for Donald […]

Religion News 15 June

Places of worship may open from now on. An earlier decision to allow this from Monday 15 June was suddenly changed to Saturday 13 June, in a government announcement on Friday morning. It took most churches by surprise and many stuck to their plans to open this week and beyond. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of […]