UK Hajj tour companies face financial difficulties
British Muslim tour operators threatened after Saudi authorities barred international travellers to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage in a measure to control the Covid-19 epidemic
Religion News 16 July
New Anglican bishops, methodist services online, Oasis UK, Russia bans same-sex marriage, CAFOD refugee appeal
Analysis: 108 days of kirtan from the living room
Young siblings perform Sikh hymns from the holy scripture from their East London living room during lockdown.
Analysis: 25 years after Srebrenica: intolerance and xenophobia must never go unchallenged
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide — an event in our history that is not often spoken about. Srebrenica took the lives of more than 8,000 Muslims and is seen by many as the worst atrocity on European soil since the Second World War: forced deportation, torture, mass murder and systematic […]
Religion News 15 July
Bristol statue replaced, FoRB formed, facebook bans conversion therapy, millenial church attendance dropped, Tunisian blogger imprisoned, Hagia Sophia
Bishop: It’s time to stop persecution of all faiths — and atheists
Bishop of Truro Philip Mounstephen interviewed about the formation of the UK Freedom of Religion and Belief Forum.
Religion News 14 July
Academics call for Prevent overhaul, Faith leaders call for third world debt cancellation, clergy domestic abusers, Eid in Dublin Park, China sanctions US, LA church fire
Academics call on government to overhaul ‘negative’ anti-terrorism programme
Academics from several leading British universities are calling for a huge overhaul of the government’s Prevent programme, after claiming that it harms students and threatens free speech and the freedom of research.
Turkey’s conversion of great Byzantine museum into mosque ‘an insult’
Having annulled the 1934 presidential decree that turned the World Heritage Site into a museum, courts give Erdogan permission to open its doors for Muslim prayers on 24 July.
First inter-religious advisory board on LGBT issues
Senior religious leaders and academics drawn from the main religions and Christian denominations in Britain have joined forces for LGBT advice