Religion news 25 November 2025
Faith organisations urge Chancellor to tax the super-rich; Catholic bishop ‘disappointed’ with outcome of COP30; Anger at protests outside Jewish synagogue in London; Over the limit priest crashes bishop’s car
Faith organisations urge Chancellor to tax the super-rich; Catholic bishop ‘disappointed’ with outcome of COP30; Anger at protests outside Jewish synagogue in London; Over the limit priest crashes bishop’s car
The nations’ favourite school assembly hymn – Shine Jesus Shine; Pope urges swift action after 315 children kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria; Moonsighting academic course launched to help British Muslims agree lunar dates
Third of Catholic priests in England from 1992-2024 were former Anglican clergy; British Jews abandon Labour and Tories for the Greens and Reform; Orange hearts on posters, Christmas trees and biscuits to show support for refugees; QR code scheme to live translate Christmas services
Christian focused Religious Education in Northern Ireland judged unlawful; Archbishop of York says Israel has committed ‘genocidal acts’; Lord Khan – Islamophobia definition has taken ‘far too long’; Muslim businesses in $2.4 trillion Halal economy at Excel centre exhibition
UK Supreme Court has ruled that Christian focused religious education in Northern Ireland schools, is not conveyed in ‘an objective, critical, and pluralistic manner’, amounting to indoctrination.
Decline in marriages and steep decline in religious ceremonies; Pope criticises disrespectful treatment of migrants in the US; Robust argument over theory of a ‘Quiet Revival’; Holocaust survivor dies aged 95
Asylum reform – Bishop ‘shaken to the core’, Jesuit Refugee Service says ‘it will inflict profound harm’, UNHCR will review detail; Pope Leo calls for action on climate change; Freedom of religion and belief school resources
Cardinal Vincent Nichols warns Britain is fragmenting; UN High Commissioner for Refugees speaks at Westminster Abbey as MPs debate asylum reforms; Pope affirms film industry saying cinema ‘awakens the light of the soul’; Historian ‘s 200-mile pilgrimage lays ‘foundation for inner peace’
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
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
