In 2018 the Irish people voted in a referendum to repeal a constitutional amendment which made abortion illegal, in place since the early 1980s. The campaigns highlighted the waning influence of the Catholic church on contemporary Ireland
Guernsey’s government rejects proposals to allow assisted dying, after objections from religious leaders, doctors and disability groups. Opposing views expressed before Guernsey parliament’s debate on
Response to faith schools decision The government has announced that it will not lift the cap on faith based free schools, which prevents them from
Faith leaders welcome burial ruling Jewish and Muslim leaders welcome a High Court ruling that it was unlawful for a senior North London Coroner to
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
