2025 Templeton Prize goes to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew; The ‘first Christian hymn’ from 200AD is released today; Churches call for review into police raid on Quaker Meeting House; Passover – a reminder of transformation in a broken world
King Charles and Queen Camilla meet the Pope in Rome; Catholic priest in Gaza says it is like ‘living in a cage’; Call for inquiry into how Tell Mama used taxpayers money; Bishop Anne Dyer ‘restoring trust’ in Scotland
The Religion Media Centre is to present a £1,000 prize to a young journalist who has shown excellent knowledge and skill in reporting a story covering religion and communities.
Premier League football clubs host workshops to tackle antisemitism; Data on British Muslims shows action needed for poverty, health and housing; Young people’s experience of Covid may be behind current surge in church attendance
‘The Quiet Revival’: huge increase in young people attending church; Bishop of Manchester reveals cancer diagnosis; Women faith leaders say assisted dying bill lacks safeguards; US Catholic bishops end partnership with government on refugees
Call for US faith groups to resist Trump administration; Pope makes a surprise public appearance at the Vatican; Poll indicates disillusion over Gaza ‘threatening integration’ in UK; Auschwitz survivor aged 103 re-united with book looted by Nazis
Quakers hold silent vigil at Scotland Yard against police raid; Jerusalem Post editor held under house arrest after story on Qatar; Safeguarding review into disgraced priest David Tudor; In search of Christians with a “Biblical world view”
CAFOD ‘strongly condemns’ Israel’s proposed military expansion in Gaza; Newcastle Cathedral cancels Archbishop of York’s visit; Catholic Spain no longer exists, says archbishop; Washington interfaith vigil on immigration raids
US State department ‘monitoring’ Bournemouth abortion buffer zone case; Faith groups ‘horrified’ by police raid on Quaker meeting house; Sir Simon Schama warns of toxic antisemitism in popular culture; Giant white prayer loop sculpture set for summer construction
BBC broadcasts first Eid-ul-Fitr live from Bradford; British move to end disputes over Eid moon sightings; Cardinal speaks of ‘churning despair’ in Myanmar; Tate Britain returns painting looted by Nazis
