Religion news 6 July 2026
Government recommends RE is included in national curriculum; Pope calls for respect for human dignity and migrants as US marks 250 years; China introduces law ‘threatening’ ethnic and religious minorities
Government recommends RE is included in national curriculum; Pope calls for respect for human dignity and migrants as US marks 250 years; China introduces law ‘threatening’ ethnic and religious minorities
Bishop of Salisbury referred to CofE’s national safeguarding team; Ofcom publishes figures for religious broadcasting in 2025; Faith groups call on PM to rethink military spending; Presbyterian Church of Wales warns ‘It’s do or die’
Conservative Catholic group consecrates four bishops in defiance of the Pope; AI can do so much for us, but ‘human wisdom will always win’; Life of Jesus Christ explored in BBC series; First Hindu temple proposed for Portsmouth; 300-year-old Guru Granth Sahib manuscript discovered in Scotland
Council of Muslims and Jews announced at Religion Media Festival; Archbishop says religion is vital for rebuilding trust in media; King ‘protects faith within the multi-faith nation’; Pope Leo urges traditionalists to halt bishop consecrations
Religion Media Festival is in London today; Lord Lemos appointed as new Faith Minister – the tenth in 10 years; Pope Leo urges prayer for Venezuela as earthquake death toll rises; Trump commission challenges separation of church and state; Calls for Lib Dem investigation into candidate’s deselection over Christian views
Lord Lemos becomes tenth Faith Minister in ten years, only a nonth after his predecessor was appointed
Government proposes conversion therapy ban; Church of England’s role in modelling ‘healthy sense of patriotism’; Archbishops fear for the future of Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land
Catholic Bishop of Northampton charged with rape; Bishops join Time to Act campaign ‘to end illegal occupation of Palestine’; Row over ‘appalling racism’ comment on Muslim prayers in Trafalgar Square; Muslim prayer ‘Sujood’ more evident at the World Cup than ever before
CofE continues work on same-sex blessings and gay clergy marriage; British Medical Association concern over NHS adoption of antisemitism definition; Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church; Warning AI can be ‘expoited by the devil’
Keir Starmer thanked for ‘deep sense of public service’ and transformative work on antisemitism; Sir Jeffrey Donaldson guilty of sex abuse and rape; Theos survey finds few believe you need to be Christian to be British; Rise in converts to Progressive Judaism
