Summarising Paganism is highly challenging as there is enormous variety across this disparate group of religious movements. Many Pagans consider themselves to not even be religious, others combine their Paganism with other faiths, and there is no consensus around particular beliefs, sacred texts or practices
Ridvan is an annual festival in the Baha’i religion, which takes place in April each year to mark the time Baha’u’llah declared himself as the manifestation of God and founded the faith. Today, Baha’is mark Ridvan with three days of prayer, community gatherings and celebrations
Commonwealth leaders in London for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, meet at Lambeth Palace to discuss how to strengthen religious freedom in their
The UK is home to the world’s fifth largest population of Jews, a total of about 269,000. This is a highly diverse group: religiously, culturall, politically and ethnically, but this has not stopped British Jews from establishing a broad and complex network of institutions and organisations across the country
The Catholic Church, often called the Roman Catholic Church, is the biggest Christian denomination, with 1.2 billion members across the globe. Its name derives from the Greek word katholikos, meaning universal
On 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. A crowd of 300,000 attended his funeral. As a Baptist minister, his
Historically, religious funerals mostly aimed to help the deceased in their passage to the next life. This continues to be the case, but in modern times emphasis has shifted towards comforting the bereaved, particularly within Christian traditions
Christianity is by far the largest religion in the UK, with 59% claiming adherence in the 2011 Census. The religion has dominated the country since its conversion in the 6th century and the Church of England remains the established faith, but today Christianity in Britain heavily fragmented into hundreds of traditions, denominations and practices
Secularisation is the process by which religious ideas, customs and institutions gradually become less relevant within society. In much of the Western world, including the UK, it has been a major social and cultural development over the last 60 years
Sikhism was founded in the 15th century by Guru Nanak, a Punjabi spiritual leader, and now claims about 25 million adherents, making it the fifth largest religion in the world
