Ruth Peacock

Ruth is the leader of the Religion Media Centre project and oversees its work. After studying theology and teaching RE, she trained as a journalist on a local paper, freelanced in print and radio and then joined the BBC, working in many news departments, including the main newsgathering desk. She also worked on the BBC’s move into the new W1 building and studied organisational change.

Written Content

Religion news 14 November 2025

PM will work with faith leaders on social cohesion; Babies and toddlers referred to Prevent; Concern that BBC crisis risks future of religious broadcasting; Informal religious education needed across society, not just in schools; Archbishop in tears over West Bank stories

Religion news 13 November 2025

Fight for the Soul of the Nation’ as communities rebuild; Presbyterian Moderator steps aside over safeguarding; Bishop Mullally opposes move to block conversion-based asylum claims; Italian woman charged over ‘weeping’ Virgin Mary statue

Religion news 12 November 2025

St Bride’s service honours journalists who died reporting the story; The Times reveals the costly, complex path to sainthood; Christian Resources Exhibition taken over by global business events company

Religion news 11 November 2025

Pope urges world leaders to protect creation; World Vision says COP30 must address childhood malnutrition; Archbishop of York prays with family of Christian Palestinian detainee

Religion news 10 November 2025

Campaign Against Antisemitism says resignations show BBC impartiality ‘is a sham’; Archbishop of York’s visit to the West Bank cut short by Israeli police; British Muslim Trust reports ‘alarming spike’ in attacks on mosques; Burnley street pastor told John 3:16 could be ‘hate speech’

Religion news 7 November 2025

Interfaith week launched at St Martin in the Fields; Interfaith Declaration for a ‘just, inclusive, compassionate’ Glasgow; National Hindu NHS Network set up in Britain; Bake Off winner says Christian faith strengthened through the contest

Religion news 6 November 2025

RE in the national curriculum recognises its ‘critical value in the modern world’; US Muslim reaction to election of Zohran Mamdani; Catholic bishop urges Lords to reject decriminalisation of abortion up to birth 

Religion news 5 November 2025

Role of SACREs key to proposed changes to Religious Education; Lord Khan says urgent need to define Islamophobia; CofE group accepts recommendations from Makin review into abuser John Smyth

Religion news 4 November 2025

Trump threatens military action against Nigeria over Christian persecution; Work to begin on the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer; Heaton Park rabbi guarded after death threat; Hyphen Online holds first conference in London today

Religion news 3 November 2025

Prayers in Huntingdon for the ‘healing of our town’; Saint John Henry Newman declared a Doctor of the Church, a rare honour; Forty MPS call on government to adopt definition of Islamophobia