Clergy on the front line of raw poverty in Burnley; Archbishop says build a better world after Covid-19; Yorkshire police hijab invention; Cathedrals re-open with Christmas spirit; Tequila bar becomes a church to beat Covid-19 ban
Cardinal George Pell “dismayed sense of vindication”; Police investigate Christian Concern film as possible hate crime; French Imams to sign charter of republican values; Methodist church in America splits over sexuality
Carol singing allowed within limits; Ampleforth college ordered to stop admitting pupils; America’s first black Roman Catholic cardinal; Our mosques our future
Furious response to international aid budget cut; Bishops condemn film which insulted LGBTQ+ Christians; Foreign Office turns red to remember persecuted Christians; Maradona finds comfort in the hands of God
A violent attack on a Sikh schoolboy in Telford, which was filmed and posted on twitter, has gone viral causing widespread condemnation and concern.
Five days of Christmas secured – of sorts; Appeal for carol singing to be allowed; Faith leaders’ outcry at government intention to reduce international aid budget; Cathedrals become charities
Public worship in England resumes after 2 December; Church of England faced down eight crises in one year – now another threatens to blow it apart; US Basketball players meet the Pope to discuss racial injustice
Church of England split on the cards if rules on sexuality are changed; funeral company says banning collective worship has devastating impact; Muslim leaders in France required to accept a charter of republican values
Oxford Diocese says the complaint, against Dean Martyn Percy, which has led to him stepping aside temporarily, was brought to the church under the clergy discipline measure, and will be properly and thoroughly investigated.
Dean Martyn Percy steps aside in a saga which ‘has more bizarre twists than The Crown’; Starmer bans Corbyn after Jewish community’s outrage over his readmission to party; Police uniform in New Zealand includes a hijab
