Religion news 10 June 2021
Humanist leads Sheffield hospitals chaplaincy team; Prosecute faith leaders who flout gay conversion therapy ban; Protests at teachers’ union antisemitism training; Date set for Methodist vote on same sex marriage
Humanist leads Sheffield hospitals chaplaincy team; Prosecute faith leaders who flout gay conversion therapy ban; Protests at teachers’ union antisemitism training; Date set for Methodist vote on same sex marriage
Teenage Christians in Cornwall protest on climate change as G7 leaders arrive; Call for closer links between Muslim seminaries and UK universities; Creationist First Minister and DUP Leader in Northern Ireland; Sandford St Martin 2021 broadcasting winners
UK Muslims and Sikhs urge reversal of international aid cut; Sir Michael Wilshaw heads JFS Jewish comprehensive school; Eric Metaxas radio show pulled; Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate abused by John Smyth; Non Muslim to lead The Penny Appeal charity
Bishop appeals to MPs to reverse international aid budget cuts; Religious leaders back assisted dying bill; Iona Abbey refurbishment opens today; Noah’s Ark stuck in Ipswich docks
Bishop apologises for tweeting “never trust a Tory”; Christian couple sentenced to death for blasphemy are acquitted; Restrictions on Muslims in Germany to contain political Islam; Staycations exploring the UK’s heritage of sacred spaces
Tearfund: G7 nations supporting fossil fuels not clean energy; Rebellion to reverse international aid budget cut; Project to build massive monument to prayer appeals for cash, prayers and road name; Two thirds of Americans pray once a week
Martyn Percy complaint will not go to church tribunal; Boris Johnson – Britain’s first Roman Catholic PM; New Catholic laws make sex abuse and grooming a criminal offence; 57 million Americans still believe in QAnon
The surprise wedding of the Prime Minster Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral this weekend has provoked sharp responses on the relationship between church law and ethics.
Boris Johnson’s wedding – “the optics for the church are terrible”; Catastrophic moral failure if world fails to vaccinate everyone against Covid-19; John Newton memorial and exhibition in his parish church is given go ahead
Gordon Brown to launch Methodist social justice campaign; Muslim Council of Britain challenges the media for skewed reporting of Palestine; Ravi Zacharias’ daughter makes first public statement on her father’s historical sex abuse
