Religion news 6 September 2023
Shortage of RE teachers “dangerous cycle” within religious education; G20 Interfaith Forum starts two day meeting; PM urged to call for release of Sikh campaigner in India
Shortage of RE teachers “dangerous cycle” within religious education; G20 Interfaith Forum starts two day meeting; PM urged to call for release of Sikh campaigner in India
Christians Against Poverty appeals for “liveable incomes”; Another Quran burning in Sweden; Turn church buildings into community hubs; Labour Party courts diverse communities in Britain
Scotland consults over regulating water cremation; Sharia compliant student finance promised In England for 2025; Pope praises tradition of religious tolerance in Mongolia; Loss of CofE parishes brings warning of death knell for the church
Britain’s first church minister for drug addiction; First papal visit to Mongolia is underway; New Bishop of Birmingham: Christian surfer and marathon runner
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
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
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
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
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
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
