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Two in five say their roof is at risk and one in three are using reserves for basics, National Churches Trust survey findsHundreds of local churches may be forced to close in the next five years as the cost of maintaining heritage buildings becomes un…
Lobby groups tell Victorian inquiry legitimate churches could be caught up in any proposed crackdown on coercive practicesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo Christian lobby groups have pushed back against any new laws to pro…
Monarch will join Pope Leo XIV at an ecumenical service in Sistine Chapel during visit to the Vatican next monthKing Charles will become the first reigning English monarch since Henry VIII split from Rome in 1534 to pray publicly with a pope during his…
Presiding bishop Olav Fykse Tveit says discrimination and harassment should ‘never have happened’Against a backdrop of red stage curtains at one of Oslo’s most prominent LGBTQ+ spaces, the Church of Norway apologised for the discrimination and harm it …
Habit of rising early for livestreams growing rapidly, suggesting Brazil is testing ground for religious influencersPsychologist Cláudia Rodrigues de Oliveira Barbosa, 54, needs to be at work by 7.40am, but she wakes up at 3.40am – not because she has …
Survivors fear closed church’s £25m in assets could end up in abusers’ handsAbout 60 former members of the Jesus Army, a cult described as one of the most abusive in British history, have come forward with new allegations against the group, according t…
Event in Victoria Park organised by East London mosque and London Muslim Centre was open to ‘men, boys of all ages and girls under 12’The communities secretary has said it was “absolutely unacceptable” for women to be excluded from taking part in a Mus…
City Builders pastor’s daughter tells Victorian parliamentary inquiry into cults of ‘grave concerns’ about churchGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe sister of Victorian Liberal MP Renee Heath has described their father’s chur…
Judge says Hamit Coskun has ‘right to offend’ and overturns conviction for religiously aggravated public order offenceA man who set fire to a Qur’an outside the Turkish consulate in London has won an appeal against his conviction after a judge backed h…
Shaista Gohir says latest government figures are an ‘underestimation’ as many incidents go unreportedThe head of a leading UK Muslim charity has said she is “deeply worried” about the unprecedented levels of anxiety in the community as government data …