Religion news 12 March 2025
‘No imminent danger’, but the Pope stays in hospital; ‘Confusing’ process to replace Welby; Hindu nationalists want Mughal emperor’s grave destroyed; Ramadan, time to quit smoking
‘No imminent danger’, but the Pope stays in hospital; ‘Confusing’ process to replace Welby; Hindu nationalists want Mughal emperor’s grave destroyed; Ramadan, time to quit smoking
Churches prepare for Lent with complex calculations on the date; Pope: ‘poly crises’ prompt questions about the end of the world; Commons debates CofE’s ‘inadequate’ safeguarding process;; Church library plan refused over font move
Two women claim Bishop of Liverpool sexually assaulted them; Injuries after crowd surge at Kumbh Mela festival in India; Cardiff University axes Religion and Theology department; Vatican warns of AI ‘enslavement’
Review of religion news 2024; CofE faces ‘existential crisis’ over safeguarding; Monk on Welsh island abused children in ‘plain sight’; Kashmiri star abandons pop career for her faith
The Archbishop of Csnterbury has resigned – unprecedented, honourable, seismmic, tragic, acutely painful; “Take off your mitre” and listen to victims; “To resign taking responsibility for negligence has no precedent for Canterbury”
Trump has the advantage and Pennsylvania remains key; America at prayer in the election that is dividing a nation; Cathedrals on Christmas stamps
Introduction to the definition and ethical debate over assisted dying, charting progress of campaigns to allow it across the UK
US decline of religion has led to a search for identity, says Biden’s faith adviser; Bullying claims against Scotland’s first female bishop thrown out; Oxford freshers trained to combat antisemitism and Islamophobia
Tear Fund: Lebanon ‘on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe’; Impact of war on British Jews and Muslims “mirrors each other”; 100th milestone in the faith journey of President Jimmy Carter
St Mary of Charity Parish Church, Faversham, is the centre of commmunity for this medieval town, where the vicar says it’s profoundly important to open the space to everyone.
