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- Vigils for journalists killed in Gaza >>
- Catholic bishops condemn Israel’s expansion into the West Bank >>
- Bishops raise concern at threatened detention of young Palestinian Christian >>
- Cardinal Parolin: ‘We are appalled at what is happening in Gaza’ >>
- Catholic bishop denounces Israel’s action in Gaza City >>
- US Senators visit Christians in Taybeh on the West Bank >>
Decision by Austrian court to allow sharia law judgments as a framework in civil disputes over property has inflamed commentary that sharia is an insidious “parallel legal system”. Maira Butt hears from academics who say that could not be further from the truth. Read her explainer here.
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, is giving a series of four lectures on “The Biblical Antichrist”. Known for his Christian views, he has recently suggested that the Antichrist could be an individual or system that controls AI like a “one-world totalitarian state”, undermining human freedom. Times report here.
Polwarth Parish Church in Edinburgh has taken full ownership of a 60ft canal boat, All Aboard, which will be a base for Bible studies, Sunday School, prayer sessions, and wellbeing events, all along the Union Canal.
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- Vigils for journalists killed in Gaza
- Catholic bishops condemn Israel’s expansion into the West Bank
- 70 babies ‘buried at Salvation Army’ mothers and baby home in Newcastle
- Pope Leo welcomes Chagos islanders’ return after ‘grave injustice’
- Corbyn tells Greenbelt it’s possible to criticise Israel without descending into antisemitism
- Chair of Christians on the Left receives death threats
- Lord Carey regrets words after Nine O’Clock service Chris Brain’s abuse verdict
- Bishops raise concern at threatened detention of young Palestinian Christian
- British Jewish identity fostered by home life, education and youth work
- Author reflects on Chris Brain’s guilty verdicts and CofE failures
- Silicon Valley chief Peter Thiel, to give lectures on AI and the Antichrist
- Westminster Abbey Institute hosts autumn events on refugees, war and peace
- Mass shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school kills two children
- Former leader of Iona community, Kathy Galloway, has died aged 73
- Law firm apologises for data breach in CofE’s safeguarding Redress Scheme
- Ten dioceses at risk of identity theft after DBS software data breach
- Newly ordained vicar disciplined over failures at Cardiff church plant
- Farage says Christian leaders are out of touch with their members
- Home of Hasidic Chabad rabbi in Bournemouth daubed with a Swastika
- Cardinal Parolin: ‘We are appalled at what is happening in Gaza’
- Christians Against Poverty warns of harmful effect of energy price cap increase
- Thousands gathered in Sweden for 100th anniversary of ecumenical movement
- Painting looted by Nazis spotted on a living room wall in Argentina
- Ed Davey says his Christian faith leads him to decline invitation to Trump state banquet
- Bishop of Oxford accuses Nigel Farage of ‘deliberately increasing fear of the stranger’
- UK government ‘clear-eyed’ about threat to British Jews from Iran
- Attendance grows at English cathedrals
- ‘Blue Labour’ founder says drop plans for Islamophobia definition
- FBI treating Minneapolis church shooting as anti-Catholic hate crime
- Catholic bishop heading international affairs denounces Israel’s action in Gaza City
- US Senators visit Christians in Taybeh on the West Bank
- Statutory inquiry into two charities connected with Wolverhampton gurdwara
- Humain Chat – the AI app that aligns with Islamic values
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