January 2025
- Catholic church Year of Jubilee starts
- Justin Welby steps down as Archbishop of Canterbury
- President Trump inaugurated, Bishop of Washington Marian Budde tells him to have mercy
- Dr Wajid Akhter elected Secretary General of Muslim Council of Britain
- 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
- Bishop of Liverpool, John Perumbaleth, ‘retires’ after sexual harassment complaints
February 2025
- Cardinal Nichols criticises Assisted Dying bill committee process
- CofE General synod delays full independent safeguarding process
- Burnley vicar says CofE should appoint working class apprentices
- Antisemitic incidents in 2024 second highest annual total
- Record number of anti-Muslim hate crime incidents in 2024
- 70 people beheaded in a church in DRC
- Hillsong churches decline from 16 to 5 in America
- British Muslim Network officially launched
March 2025
- Government sets up group to define Islamophobia
- Oasis Charity Trust marks 40th anniversary
- Report says ‘significant’ management failures at Winchester Cathedral
- Former bishop of Swansea Anthony Pierce, jailed for indecent assault
- Assisted Dying bill removes need for judge approval
- Wales ‘in danger of losing its religious identity’ as Cardiff university course closes
- Isle of Man passes assisted dying bill
- Moonies ‘dissolved’ in Japan
- New police powers to prevent protests near mosques and synagogues
- Quakers demand an apology after Met Police raid on a meeting house
April 2025
- BBC broadcasts first Eid-ul-Fitr live from Bradford
- British move to end disputes over Eid moon sightings
- US State department ‘monitoring’ Bournemouth abortion buffer zone case
- ‘The Quiet Revival’: survey says huge increase in young people attending church
- US Catholic bishops end partnership with government on refugees
- Data on British Muslims shows action needed for poverty, health and housing
- King Charles and Queen Camilla meet the Pope in Rome
- 2025 Templeton Prize goes to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
- 36 members of the Board of Deputies condemn war in Gaza
- Pope Francis dies. More than 100,000 pay respects at his funeral
May 2025
- Christian Aid re-organisation plans ‘will slash jobs’
- Report on governance failures at Bangor Cathedral found a lack of financial controls, excessive drinking and blurred lines of sexual boundaries
- Pope Leo XIV elected – the first American to hold the papacy
- British rabbis demand immediate humanitarian aid to Gaza
- Historic merger unites Britain’s progressive Jewish movements
- Trussell Trust charts extraordinary rise of need for food parcels in UK
- CofE bishops condemn ‘war of aggression’ in Gaza
- Chief rabbi: Anti-Zionists are also anti-Jewish
- Pope: Stop hostilities in Ukraine and Gaza now
June 2025
- Man who burned Quran in London, guilty of religiously aggravated public order offence – fears of ‘reintroducing a blasphemy law’
- Bishop Leicester steps down from LLF
- 10.7 per cent CofE clergy pay rise
- Faith leaders pledge non-violence in Los Angeles as officers train guns on them
- BBC documentary on Kumbh Mela Hindu festival, with Amol Rajan
- Hindu temple prayers for victims of the Ahmedabad air crash
- MPs debate legal recognition of humanist marriages in England and Wales
- Christian Aid marks 80th anniversary
- Grooming gangs report: Casey warns silence on ethnicity fuels harm
- Search for children’s remains at Irish Catholic mother and baby home
- ‘Knife edge’ Assisted Dying Bill Commons third reading passed 314 to 291
- Church of England prepares for war with new chaplain rules
- Chief Rabbi: Glastonbury chants ‘grotesque expression of mass hatred’
- Archbishop of Wales Andy John, retires with immediate effect
July 2025
- Chief Rabbi condemns BBC for not halting ‘vile Jew hatred’
- Dalai Lama announces Trust will choose his successor
- UK Gurdwara Alliance launched to liaise with government
- Excavation to find remains of 796 children at Tuam home
- Synod overwhelmingly against assisted dying
- Baptist Union leader becomes first woman vice chair worldwide
- Kruger MP warns of ‘dangerous’ ideology of non-religion replacing Christianity in Britain
- British Muslim Trust founded to monitor anti-Muslim hate crime
- Jesuit Refugee Service slams UK immigration detention system
- Church of England newspaper ceases publication – for now
- Government says Faith Covenants must ‘dovetail’ with new Civil Society Covenant
- Story of the Jesus Army told in BBC documentaries
- Bishop in dressing gown halts London choir concert, calling it ‘terrible racket’
- British Jews’ anger over Gaza – ‘This is not in our name’
- Cherry Vann becomes the new Archbishop of Wales
August 2025
- Spurgeon’s College closes down with immediate effect
- Man, 76, arrested after children fall ill at Christian camp in Leicester
- St John Henry Newman set to become newest Doctor of the Church
- Sea of Faith Network explores new approach to RE
- Gordon Brown wants gambling tax rise to lift children out of poverty
- Cornwall plan to replace six clergy with two, across 23 churches
- Badenoch lost her faith after the Josef Fritzl case
- World faith leaders call for nuclear abolition 80 years after Nagasaki
- JD Vance met Christian leaders James Orr and Danny Kruger on holiday in the Cotswolds
- Carmelite priest and Baptist minister arrested at Palestine Action protest
- Fewer students take RE A-Level amid shortage of specialist teachers
- Theos think tank urges universities not to abandon Theology and Religious Studies
- The world watches as a vast wooden church in Sweden is rolled to a new location
- Chris Brain, leader of the ‘Nine O’Clock Service’, guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault
- 80 Orthodox rabbis say Israel has moral obligation to prevent mass starvation
- Royal Navy’s first Hindu chaplain starts work in Plymouth
- 70 babies buried at Salvation Army mothers and baby home in Newcastle
- Silicon Valley chief to give lectures on AI and the Antichrist
- Mass shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school kills two children
- Former leader of Iona community, Kathy Galloway, has died aged 73
September 2025
- Extra security at mosques after asylum hotel protests
- Faith leaders urge government to lift two child benefit cap
- Green party elects Jewish leader and Muslim deputy leader
- Carlo Acutis, millennial saint, canonised
- King Charles visits Birmingham Oratory, once the home of St John Henry Newman
- Chris Brain faces retrial on outstanding rape and sex abuse charges
- King attended first Catholic funeral by a monarch in Britain since the reformation
- Faith minister Lord Khan has left the government. Replaced by Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
- African Methodism grows after autonomy on sexuality
- Bangor Cathedral choir suspended following ‘Canticle of Indignation’
- Archbishop resigns in dispute amid ‘spiritual Disneyland’ development at Mount Sinai
- Charlie Kirk shot dead at 31 – tributes paid to his conservative Christian faith
- Assisted Dying Bill second reading debate in the House of Lords
- Christian groups at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally – reports that Tommy Robinson was converted in prison. Churches need to counter far right’s ‘pseudo Christian posturing’; Bishop calls on Christians to ‘reclaim the flag and the faith’
- Christian Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform
- Board of Deputies ‘gravely concerned’ at UK move to recognise Palestinian state
- Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK at Cardiff University celebrates 20th anniversary
- Charlie Kirk’s memorial service an ‘Old Time Revival’
- New watchdog to monitor hate crime against Muslim women and girls
- Unification church leader arrested in South Korea
- Minister to block Islamophobia definition if curbs free speech
- Three nuns escape care home & break into Salzburg convent
- New Faith Minister speaks at Labour fringe event
- Home Secretary – anti Muslim hatred ‘on a scale I’ve never known in my lifetime’
October 2025
- UK Armed Forces recruits first Humanist ‘pastoral carer
- Former faith minister Lord Khan urges government to tackle anti Muslim hate crime
- Pope Leo – Climate call of Laudato Si’ more urgent than ever
- Two killed in attack at Heaton Park synagogue, Manchester: ‘Antisemitic hatred is rising once again, and Britain must defeat it’
- Sarah Mullaly smashes ‘stained glass ceiling’ and is appointed as new Archbishop of Canterbury
- Mosque in Peacehaven, Sussex, set on fire with people inside
- Sikhs threaten legal challenge to new Islamophobia definition
- Israel and Hamas sign off first phase of peace plan
- Police ban street preacher from using a microphone
- Andy Burnham calls for politics “with trust, community, faith and connection at its heart” Teacher trainee bursary for RE to be removed from 2026
- Court overturns conviction for burning the Quran
- ‘Sacrilegious’ graffiti exhibition in Canterbury Cathedral
- Church of England bishops pause Living in Love and Faith process for same sex relationships and set higher legal bar for blessing services
- CofE clergy to hold same-sex blessing services despite bishops’ ruling
- ‘The future has arrived’ – Gafcon declares itself as the true Global Anglican Communion, after Sarah Mullaly is elected as Archbishop of Canterbury
- ‘Deliveroo-style chaplaincy’ proposed for City of London
- Diwali Day in Leicester scaled back this year
- Maccabi Tel Aviv halts ticket sales for Aston Villa match
- National Churches Trust issues urgent call to save Britain’s churches
- Bishops call for immediate removal of two child benefit cap
- New Catholic bishop of Plymouth appointed finally – third time lucky
- King and Queen arrive in Rome for historic meeting with Pope Leo
- King Charles and Pope Leo in historic prayer service at Sistine Chapel
- Two men charged over Peacehaven mosque attack
- Appeal to build office tower beside oldest synagogue in the City of London
- National celebration marks 60 years of inter-religious dialogue
- King heckled outside Lichfield Cathedral
- Jewish leaders call for national strategy to combat antisemitism
- CofE attendance up, but still not back to pre-Covid levels
- King and Queen visit Neasden Temple to mark 30th anniversary
- Silicon Valley technology to ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return
- End of RE bursary scheme will ‘profoundly affect’ young people
November 2025
- Prayers in Huntingdon for the ‘healing of our town’
- Saint John Henry Newman declared a Doctor of the Church, a rare honour
- Trump threatens military action against Nigeria over Christian persecution
- Work to begin on the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer – structure in West Midlands made of bricks with text of answered prayers
- Lord Khan says urgent need to define Islamophobia
- Zohran Mamdani becomes first Muslim to be elected as mayor of New York City
- Catholic bishop urges Lords to reject decriminalisation of abortion up to birth
- Interfaith week launched at St Martin in the Fields
- National Hindu NHS Network set up in Britain
- Bake Off winner says Christian faith strengthened through the contest
- Archbishop of York’s visit to the West Bank cut short by Israeli police
- British Muslim Trust reports ‘alarming spike’ in attacks on mosques
- Pope urges world leaders to protect creation
- Christian Resources Exhibition taken over by global business events company
- Informal religious education needed across society, not just in schools
- Government’s asylum reforms – Bishop ‘shaken to the core’, Jesuit Refugee Service says ‘it will inflict profound harm’, UNHCR will review detail
- Decline in marriages and steep decline in religious ceremonies
- Christian focused Religious Education in Northern Ireland judged unlawful
- Muslim businesses in $2.4 trillion Halal economy at Excel centre exhibition
- Third of Catholic priests in England from 1992-2024 were former Anglican clergy
- The nations’ favourite school assembly hymn – Shine Jesus Shine
- Pope urges swift action after 315 children kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria
- Moonsighting academic course launched to help British Muslims agree lunar dates
- Pope Leo starts first international visit today in Turkey
- Bishop of Chelmsford ‘bitterly regrets’ LGBTQ+ people have been failed by the church
December 2025
- Pope Leo appeals for peace and unity on his five day visit to Turkey and Lebanon
- Proposal to rename Herzog Park in Dublin criticised as ‘disgraceful’ – and shelved
- Three Austrian nuns in their 80s win the right to stay in their convent
- Vatican decides against women deacons at present
- Unite the Kingdom Christmas carol concert set for London
- Christmas tree returns to Manger Square in Bethlehem
- John Smyth’s wife says she is sorry and ashamed for failing to stop his abuse
- King Charles attends Advent service highlighting persecution of Christians
- Pew Research Centre questions reports of a religious revival
- Reform party launches Christian Fellowship
- Shabana Mahmood says her strong faith led her into politics
