Religion news 3 July 2025
Report says media ignores diverse, grass-roots Christianity; Dalai Lama announces Trust will choose his successor; MCB leader slams ‘hypocrisy’ over Glastonbury chants; Interfaith work needs an ‘ecosystem’ of groups.
Report says media ignores diverse, grass-roots Christianity; Dalai Lama announces Trust will choose his successor; MCB leader slams ‘hypocrisy’ over Glastonbury chants; Interfaith work needs an ‘ecosystem’ of groups.
Christians in parliament protest over welfare bill; Act on Glastonbury or admit ‘Britain is becoming unsafe for Jews’; Mamdani’s NY victory reveals ‘appalling undercurrent of racism’; Old English reading of the Nicene Creed goes viral
Chief Rabbi: Glastonbury chants ‘grotesque expression of mass hatred’; Archbishop of Wales retires with immediate effect; Catholic Lib Dem MP denied communion after supporting assisted dying; Stampede at Rath Yatra festival in India kills three
Church of England prepares for war; New York’s Muslim mayoral candidate faces Islamophobic abuse; Dalai Lama expected to address his succession by 6 July; Continuing legal issues for ‘The Chosen’ blockbuster film series
Amol Rajan on his spiritual journey at the Kumbh Mela; CofE silence on grooming gangs shows class divide; Justin Welby’s support for same sex blessings; Truro Cathedral displays embroidered story of creation
Board of Deputies suspends five after public letter criticised Israel; National Prayer Breakfast asserts Christian foundations of public life; Muslim World League leader meets MPs; Three ‘trailblazers’ in interfaith dialogue awarded gold medals
Israel and Iran agree to a ceasefire; Chief Rabbi ‘evacuated out of Israel on RAF plane’; Archbishop of Wales apologises for ‘errors of judgement’; 2025 National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast this morning; Pope Leo warns of AI’s impact on young people
Pope Leo XIV pleads for peace in the Middle East; Bishop of Chelmsford issues prayer for Iran; Assisted Dying – ‘Our establishment has lost any sense of right and wrong’; Suicide bomber kills 22 praying in a church in Syria
Reaction to Assisted Dying vote collated here – from shock, disappointment, concern and feelings of terror, to elation at a ‘landmark moment for dignity’
‘Knife edge’ vote on Assisted Dying Bill takes place today; Board of Deputies urges safe passage for Brits in Israel; Pope visits Vatican’s ‘invaluable’ shortwave radio centre; Portable ‘tiny church’ in Denmark
