Factsheet: Advent
Explainer on Advent and Christmas, including outline of special services – carol, nativity, Christingle and midnight mass
Explainer on Advent and Christmas, including outline of special services – carol, nativity, Christingle and midnight mass
A coalition of world faith leaders have signed a declaration affirming their conviction that LGBTQ+ people are loved by God equally. They are calling for a ban on conversion therapy and an end to the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people.
A report from the Woolf Institute suggests religion is a greater driver of prejudice than racism or xenophobia. Workplace friendships are key to breaking down misconceptions but working from home could lead to an increase in racism and prejudice.
France has been further engulfed in a crisis over Islam and terrorism after a second knife attack in October left three people dead.
A school has apologised and withdrawn a workbook on Hinduism from its website after a row erupted over a passage that suggested some Hindus have used terrorism to defend their beliefs.
QAnon — the bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory alleging Satan-worshipping paedophile elites — has made a foothold in the UK with 1:20 people supporting the movement.
Danny Kruger MP was asked by the Prime Minister to report on how faith groups contributed to civil society in the lockdown. He suggests a new deal between the state and faith groups to provide ongoing help.
Martyn Percy is the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and both a senior cleric in the Church of England and the head of an ancient Oxford University college. Since 2017 he has been at loggerheads with senior academics in the college, who have repeatedly made efforts to force him out of his job over contested claims around safeguarding and bullying
The embattled Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Very Rev Martyn Percy, has been cleared by a Church of England safeguarding investigation.
The Pilgrim fathers shaped the emerging American story through their religious convictions and strong belief in the common good and social gospel, now abandoned by much of modern US evangelicalism.
