Ruth Peacock

Ruth is the leader of the Religion Media Centre project and oversees its work. After studying theology and teaching RE, she trained as a journalist on a local paper, freelanced in print and radio and then joined the BBC, working in many news departments, including the main newsgathering desk. She also worked on the BBC’s move into the new W1 building and studied organisational change.

Written Content

Religion news 31 August 2023

Organised religion static, but spiritualty alive in China; Times survey shows majority of clergy favour conversion therapy ban; No sex assault trial for Cardinal McCarrick; Teachers given resources to combat Islamophobia and encourage Muslim children

Religion news 30 August 2023

CofE clergy urging change in doctrine on sex; School in India is shut down after Muslim boy is slapped; Denmark law to stop burning of the Quran; Spanish football president’s mother on hunger strike in church

Religion news 29 August 2023

France bans the wearing of the abaya, a loose robe, in schools; Mosque in Birmingham has money pulled from youth project; Conservative Christians call for protection at work; Pope says strong reactionary attitude in USA has abandoned doctrine for ideology

Religion news 25 August 2023

Religious Studies GCSE still popular as students achieve high results; Jesuits declared illegal and property confiscated in Nicaragua; Jewish cemetery in Rochester vandalised five times; Catholic AI app incapable of hallucinating

Religion news 24 August 2023

World Jewish Relief wins contract to support Ukrainian refugees in the UK; Digital archive on native American child abuse at church boarding schools in America; Texas nuns ban the bishop from their monastery in sexting row

Religion news 23 August 2023

Evangelist Franklin Graham says Trump lost the 2020 election; Christians on the Left urges Labour to repeal the two child benefits limit; Rohingya refugees in Bradford keep their faith and culture alive

Religion news 22 August 2023

Pope to publish Laudato Si part 2 after extreme weather events; Pakistan pays compensation to Christians targeted by angry mob; Christians banned from site of transfiguration in Israel

Religion news 21 August 2023

How churches in England got behind the Lionesses on Sunday morning; “Hatred and uncontrollable rage” against Christians in Pakistan; Safeguarding review into the late Gerald Coates; Methodist / URC refugee project in Sherborne

Religion news 18 August 2023

Fall in A-level Religious Studies exam entries this year; Hillsong founder Brian Houston not guilty of concealing sex abuse; Teenager dies at Christian summer camp in Derbyshire