by Minreet Kaur The assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984, which led to thousands being killed, caused collective trauma in the
Comment by Diarmaid MacCulloch I will lay my cards on the table straight away; I was hugely cheered to watch the clip of Edward Colston’s
By Tim Maby, 9 June 2020 The new minister for “fire and faith” has certainly had a hot time of it since he started work
George Floyd, the African American man whose death at the hands of police in Minneapolis sparked global protests against racial injustice, has been laid to
The Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, whose city witnessed violent scenes at the weekend when the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston, was pulled
As anti racism demonstrations continued in towns and cities throughout the UK this weekend, the Bishop of Bristol Vivienne Faull has spoken of the profound
Comment by Remona Aly, 7 June 2020 In 1706, the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift said: “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but
In Minneapolis, the civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton spoke at a memorial service for George Floyd, killed at the hands of police. Memorials are
The President’s Church is the popular name for St John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, which stands opposite the White House. It has a long association with several presidents spanning centuries and most recently hit the news when Donald Trump held a controversial photo op outside it in 2020
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales, has described the “well springs of common good” that have emerged during
