Religion news 14 August 2025
BBC apologises after Thought for the Day comment on xenophobia; Pope Leo hoping Trump and Putin agree a ceasefire; University spaces available for the study of Theology and Religious Studies
BBC apologises after Thought for the Day comment on xenophobia; Pope Leo hoping Trump and Putin agree a ceasefire; University spaces available for the study of Theology and Religious Studies
Carmelite priest and Baptist minister arrested at Palestine Action protest; Catholic priest attacked at his last Mass before retirement; 500 Israeli mothers set up a peace camp near Gaza border; Pope’s general audience to be held inside because of the heat
Al Jazeera journalist’s final message centred on Allah; Call for British Jews to acknolwedge divisions over Gaza and debate with respect; Fire damages Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba; Cellist ends pilgrimage on a bicycle to all 42 English Anglican cathedrals; Japanese Moonies’ member locked in his flat for 12 years for de-programming
Tensions spilling over in British Jewish community over Gaza; Civil Society Covenant backlash; Midnight snooping exposed as curate cleared of affair; Thousands watch vibrant Hindu festival in Ealing
Badenoch lost her faith after the Josef Fritzl case; Summer camps for traumatised children from the West Bank and Gaza; World faith leaders call for nuclear abolition 80 years after Nagasaki; Christianity underpins Lammy–JD Vance friendship
Pope says nuclear arms offend shared humanity; Gordon Brown wants gambling tax rise to lift children out of poverty; Cornwall plan to replace six clergy with two, across 23 churches; Call for Muslims to unite and lead development of AI
Former bishop says Danny Kruger’s ‘trumpeting’ of Christianity is counter productive; Muslim YouTuber loses defamation claim against journalist Douglas Murray; Protest to demand UK witholds recognition of Palestine until hostages are released; New Vatican Observatory director prioritises AI and climate change
US Episcopalian missioner’s daughter detained in custody while renewing her visa; Sea of Faith Network explores new approach to RE; Charity Commission statutory inquiry into the Abdullah Quilliam Society
How the Sea of Faith network is imagining its future in a society vastly different to the 1980s when it began
Pope tells young people they are a sign ‘a different world is possible’; Wing and prayer – restored aircraft lands in cathedral nave; Board of Deputies president says civilians should not be punished for crimes of Hamas
