Religion News 27 July
48 hour boycott of Twitter and Facebook in protest at antisemitic posts; Petition to save Sheffield Cathedral Choir,; cathedrals and churches in financial trouble due to lockdown
48 hour boycott of Twitter and Facebook in protest at antisemitic posts; Petition to save Sheffield Cathedral Choir,; cathedrals and churches in financial trouble due to lockdown
Hagia Sophia opens for prayers. Coronavirus spreads – Hindu pilgrimage cancelled; hundreds of children at risk from church summer cam; fear causing anti Semitic backlash.
Social Cohesion Report, religious response to Uighurs in China, ordination of interfaith ministers, Augustine Tanner-Ihm tweets, choir sacked at Sheffield Cathedral, Hagia Sophia
Knights’ Chamber at Peterborough Cathedral becomes a temporary court; Face masks to be worn in church; Hong Kong Archbishop provokes fury for supporting China’s national security law
Call for international action on Uyghur ‘genocide’; CofE disciplinary process leaves clergy suicidal; President Trump warns ‘religion will be over’
Modern slavery app launched, Vatican sex abuse manual, conversion therapy, Tolpuddle martyrs, Lourdes pilgrimage, US Bishop cleared, Scientology TV series pulled
New Anglican bishops, methodist services online, Oasis UK, Russia bans same-sex marriage, CAFOD refugee appeal
Bristol statue replaced, FoRB formed, facebook bans conversion therapy, millenial church attendance dropped, Tunisian blogger imprisoned, Hagia Sophia
Academics call for Prevent overhaul, Faith leaders call for third world debt cancellation, clergy domestic abusers, Eid in Dublin Park, China sanctions US, LA church fire
Virtual Choirs, Archbishop of York, General Synod, Bishop Tweets on Cummings, Zoom ceremony for Srebrenica, Pope on Hagia Sophia, US impose sanctions on China
