For the first time in Britain, wedding ceremonies in all religions could be legally recognised under new proposals, the family law commissioner Professor Nick Hopkins told a web briefing held by the Religion Media Centre.
Professor Frank Bremer has spent his life researching the Puritans who settled in the new world. On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s voyage, he reviews their attempts to create an exemplary society.
Jonathan Petre tells the story of the Puritan separatists who left Plymouth for the new world in September 400 years ago, later to be joined by ‘saints’ from Suffolk, as the American dream began.
Rev Steve Chalke, says government needs to act now to provide a Covid-secure, failsafe timetable and plan for next year’s exams, as the knock on effect of school closures reverberates.
St Margaret’s church in Rainham is employing a journalist to dig out stories about the local community after residents bemoaned the lack of neighbourhood news. The recruit is gay, an atheist from a Catholic upbringing, who says the church and journalists should work together to serve the community.
Christian churches’ online services have gone mainline and are soaring among young people. Services are attractive to people who wish to remain anonymous at the back of the church. But the search for prayer, community and meaning is there, online.
Faith leaders urge action against Uyghur ‘genocide’; Beirut Catholic leaders told to live without luxury; Jehovah’s Witnesses take stand at IICSA sex abuse inquiry.
Prof Robin Gill explains the arguments over a “just war” in the 75 years since nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and the Christian moral arguments against “wholly indiscriminate” killing of people.
Churches in the north west countryside describe how they served remote hill farming communities scattered over vast areas of land during the coronavirus lockdown.
Detailed planning at Hajj 2020 A pilgrim to the Hajj, who used to be a banker in London, has been describing the experience of taking
