Religion news 11 August 2023
Record demand for help from National Zakat Foundation; Visitors’ centre for St Bride’s Mound, Glastonbury; US Methodist ministers’ wellbeing decline; Scientists find hint of a new force of nature
Record demand for help from National Zakat Foundation; Visitors’ centre for St Bride’s Mound, Glastonbury; US Methodist ministers’ wellbeing decline; Scientists find hint of a new force of nature
Army veteran pleads not guilty to praying in an abortion clinic buffer zone; Catholic campaign to lift faith based schools admissions cap; Move in Lebanon to ban Barbie film on religious grounds; Text Jesus for free and be told you are his friend
The “otherworldly resonance” of Sinead O’Connor; Jesuit Refugee Service director speaks of appalling level of need in Syria; Methodist charity wants to expand work on modern slavery; Exorcist director has died aged 87
Iranian Christian among first asylum seekers sent to the Bibby Stockholm; Charity Commission critical of Jehovah’s Witnesses trustees; Lurid pink “Jesus Ken” and “Barbie Virgin Mary” dolls cause outrage
1.5 million people attend World Youth Day closing mass; Sinead O’Connor, proudly Irish and Muslim, buried tomorrow; Hindu Republican presidential candidate courts Christian right
Pope tells half a million young Catholics the church is for everyone; Franklin Graham says Trump indictments attempt to wound him politically; First rabbi for 800 years for Jewish community in York; Survey to find Hindu temple under 600 year old Indian mosque
Help for people leaving abusive, controlling religious groups; White evangelical support for Trump challenged after criminal charges; Pope meets survivors of clerical abuse in Portugal; Gunman who killed 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue is sentenced to death; Series of attacks against Muslims in India
Donald Trump had key backing from white evangelicals, but some are speaking out and urging others to reconsider their support: a selection of views
Supporting vulnerable people to leave harmful, controlling religious groups must begin with understanding why they were attracted in the first place and how the group held them in their grip
Sir David Lidington says flaws in the governance of the Church of England are not the only cause of the total breakdown of trust – what is needed is culture change
