Religion news 23 November
Rabbi warns against relaxing lockdown rules: “It is not religious to give someone Covid for Christmas”; Rigpa Fellowship “mismanagement and misconduct”; Is a government faith engagement department on the cards?
Rabbi warns against relaxing lockdown rules: “It is not religious to give someone Covid for Christmas”; Rigpa Fellowship “mismanagement and misconduct”; Is a government faith engagement department on the cards?
The Indian festival of lights, celebrated by millions of Hindus Sikhs and Jains, moves online with music and dance programmes, while families stay at home to party.
The Labour party is found guilty of unlawful acts in its response to antisemitism. A “damning verdict” and “day of shame”.
It is absolutely certain that QAnon will continue to flourish whatever the outcome of the election, even if it makes no political sense: it functions according to the logics of religious belief
Samhain is a pagan festival celebrated around the same time as Halloween which marks the end of the summer, and is particularly associated with the veneration of ancestors
Judaism is the first and oldest of the world’s Abrahamic religions, but it also the smallest with just 15 million adherents globally. Originating in the Middle East thousands of years ago, Jews and their distinctive culture and faith are now found all over the world
Hinduism, whose adherents make up 15% of the global population, is a not single religion comparable to Abrahamic faiths, with a founder and canonical text. It is rather a family of traditions that can be understood as a network of related beliefs and practices rather than a formal religion
Rihanna has provoked outrage from Muslims for using a remix of a sacred Islamic Hadith as the backing for a raunchy dance routine launching her latest lingerie range.
In the past decade, the Church of England has regularly been rocked by cases of child abuse, including many by priests and even bishops. Multiple inquiries and reviews have been carried out, along with wholescale reform to the Church’s safeguarding procedures, culminating in the Independent Inquiry into Child Abuse in October 2020
Fact sheet on Christianity, with 2.5 followers – 30% of the global population. Facts, stats, beliefs, customs, church denominations and key controversies.
