Explaining the story of Cineworld’s decision to cancel all UK screenings of the film The Lady of Heaven, about the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter, after loud protests by Muslim groups who said it was blasphemous
The Queen has approached public life “reflective of a line from Sikh holy scriptures which says: ‘No one is my enemy and no one is a stranger. I get along with everyone’.”
“The Queen has a long-term relationship with the Muslim community and the majority of that has been a fruitful one”
Explaining zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam, a gift of money considered one of the most important forms of charity
Muslims are a minority religion in Ukraine with many living in Crimea and their leaders are urging them to defend their country
The history, facts and stats explaining the Russian Orthodox Church’s claim on Ukraine and alliance with the Kremlin
The meaning of Christian Zionism, a belief that the Jewish people have a right to return to Israel and this heralds the end times.
The Church of England is in the midst of a complex and fraught internal debate over same-sex marriage and LGBT issues. Currently it bans gay weddings in churches and does not let clergy enter same-sex marriages either, although some of its sister Churches have permitted this
The Raëlian movement, also called Raëlianism or the Raëlian religion, is a new religious movement (NRM) based on a belief in UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
New Religious Movements is an academic term which encompasses many of those groups and organisations which are often negatively labelled as sects or cults in popular discourse. The movements vary enormously, although they are often derived from most established faiths, and there is significant disagreement among researchers about how to categorise them
