Religion news 25 August 2022
Ireland church leaders call for help for the vulnerable; Orthodox leader supports heroic Ukrainians defending their homeland; Are woke social justice campaigners the new Puritans?
Ireland church leaders call for help for the vulnerable; Orthodox leader supports heroic Ukrainians defending their homeland; Are woke social justice campaigners the new Puritans?
Weary renewed calls for peace as war in Ukraine passes six month landmark; Sanctuary Foundation appeals for more UK host families; Former Barbados High Commissioner heads CofE racial justice unit; Rishi Sunak garlanded at Hindu festival on campaign trail
Bishop calls for small grant scheme as churches protect the vulnerable this winter; Antisemitism and Islamophobia in “more tolerant” Britain; United Methodists consider financial cost of split over same sex dispute
No Vatican investigation into Cardinal Ouellet sex abuse allegations; UN official says Baha’i persecution in Iran is abhorrent; Archbishop says church buildings offer sanctuary and need to be preserved; St Austell’s earth goddess sculpture slammed as “offensive to God”
Decline in number of students taking A level Religious Studies; Church prepares for the final IICSA report on child sex abuse; Escalation in Jewish emigration from Russia to Israel; Statue of Mary sails on a pilgrimage against pollution down the River Wye
Demands that chair of CofE Pensions Board should quit over shareholdings in Shell; Irish Catholics demand equal status for women; Ten dead and 30 injured in Kabul mosque bomb attack
Cardinal of Quebec accused of sexual assault; EU “blocking” kosher products to Northern Ireland; New Gafcon diocese launched in Australia in protest at same sex drift; Thai Buddhist temple takes shape in family home in Edinburgh
Iran denies it had any involvement in attack on Salman Rushdie; Muslim appeal for 6 million people devastated by Somalia drought; Hare Krishna island prepares for August festival; Archbishop baptises five people in the sea at Bridlington
Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie “on the road to recovery”; Criminal investigation into Southern Baptist Convention’s handling of sex abuse; Rock crystals found in neolithic burial site from 6,000 years ago
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