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A Swedish court has ruled against a midwife in a dispute over her refusal to carry out abortions.
Ellinor Grimmark argued that her Christian beliefs made it impossible for her to carry out abortions and that it was unfair to be turned down for jobs in Joenkoeping because of that.
But the labour court ruled that she had not suffered discrimination. It said the authorities had not violated her "freedom of opinion and expression".
A former Archbishop of Canterbury last night launched a stinging attack on 'politically correct' aid officials who are 'institutionally biased' against helping Christians.
Lord Carey warned ministers risk breaking the law by discriminating against Christians facing oppression in Syria.
He claimed Syrian Christians are not benefiting from British help as they avoid UN refugee camps, funded with UK aid, because of fears of persecution from rogue Islamist groups operating inside or Muslim officials who are hostile to converts to Christianity.
A terminally ill man has won the right to bring a High Court challenge over the law on assisted dying.
Noel Conway, 67, asked the Court of Appeal to overturn a decision that prevented a judicial review over the blanket ban on providing a person with assistance to die.
The retired college lecturer, who has motor neurone disease, is not expected to live for more than 12 more months.
A former chaplain to the Queen has said that the quarter of Christians who say they do not believe in the Resurrection "cannot be Christians".
The Rev Dr Gavin Ashenden said in a letter to the Times that a survey which found that one in four self-proclaimed Christians do not believe in Jesus's Resurrection "made the mistake of confusing British culture with Christianity".
He said: "Those people who neither believe in the Resurrection nor go anywhere near a church cannot be 'Christians'."
A number of new faith schools have been approved to open by the Department for Education (DfE) in the twelfth wave of free schools applications.
Twelve faith school are included in the 131 free schools approved – with a further three schools to be run by the faith-based Oasis Multi Academy Trust (MAT).
The approved faith schools include three Islamic designated schools in Birmingham, Bradford and Manchester.
How should Christians relate to the culture around them? That is the question raised by Rod Dreher's article in the Spectator this week. He's right that it's a pretty fundamental question. If we Christians don't know how to answer it, our message is likely to seem muddled. In common with many leading theologians of the last few decades, he claims that the answer is simple, if we are daring enough to see it. We should defy the false gods of the age, 'the norms of secular society'. Liberal Christianity has failed to do so, and so has allowed the erosion of its sacred inheritance. We must be counter-cultural little Benedicts.
A major new doctoral initiative aimed at equipping leadership in the non-western and persecuted church has been launched by two leading academic institutes – the Oxford Centre for Religion in Public Life (OCRPL) and the Theology department of the South African University of Stellenbosch.
The collaboration aims to research questions of mission and ministry that are central to the survival of churches under pressure and persecution. Researchers, who will work towards a PH D, will remain in their place of ministry but complete their research through study time and under the guidance of supervisors from Oxford and Stellenbosch.
Watching Belinda Brown on Sunday's The Big Questions was frightening, and well done to Belinda on taking on the trans-fascists. Let's be very clear that this is not just a question of 'imposing one's view on another person.' Asking someone i.e Belinda to refer to a woman as he or they is asking that person to lie. And that is bullying. In fact it is worse than that - it is forcing by shaming to get another to endorse a gross untruth.
This is nothing to do with the evolution of the language - which happens over time - as some of the audience insisted. This is the policing of language to encourage a revolution in human revolutions. As you said Belinda, language reflects reality and this is an attempt to erode the reality of women and men and the very real differences between them.
Those convicted of revenge porn should not automatically be placed on the Sex Offender Register because "sexting" is now so common it would "stigmatise" too many people, senior judges have said.
A court in Scotland found the "foolish" exchange of intimate images could mean large numbers find themselves on the register if new laws are interpreted too harshly.
In England and Wales people convicted of offences under the new revenge porn legislation are not automatically forced to sign the register but can face a maximum of two years in prison.
Ireland is to become the first country in the world to carry out a national LGBT youth strategy.
The strategy aims to address the challenges faced by young members of Ireland's LGBT community.
Young people around Ireland are being urged to get involved and share their views over the coming months, with events organised around the country.