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A cathedral has removed a clip of a Muslim prayer being recited within its precincts from its Facebook page after it was heavily criticised for allowing the event to take place.
The prayer took place in Gloucester Cathedral’s chapter house as part of the launch of a multi-faith art exhibition, and was well-received by those who attended.
The cathedral decided to take down its social media post on the event following some of the comments it received on its page.
Banking group Lloyds has been named the most inclusive employer in Britain by Stonewall.
The firm won the accolade after launching a new volunteering programme, forming official partnerships with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender charities.
Lloyds also supported awareness days and social media campaigns as well as flying bisexual and transgender flags at 35 sites.
We are happy to make clear that Islam as a religion does not support so-called "honour killings".' Last August that sentence appeared in the corrections pages of both the Sun and the Mail Online. Why had these newspapers suddenly felt inclined to weigh in on this contentious theological debate? Because a complaint had been made against them to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), the non-state-backed press regulator set up after Leveson. It was lodged by Miqdaad Versi, the assistant general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, acting in a personal capacity.
At the end of last year, Dame Louise Casey released her report "The Casey Review: a review into opportunity and integration." The report highlighted deep segregation within our society and proposed some solutions to this problem, one of which is the swearing of a "British Values" oath for all holders of public office.
You may say, “I know the gospel,” but since the gospel is endlessly rich and infinitely multifaceted, there’s always something new to learn about its power and effect (1 Pet. 1:12).
In the pages of A Disruptive Gospel: Stories and Strategies for Transforming Your City, Mac Pier shows how the gospel has the power to disrupt the status quo, which is indifferent to evil. The gospel disrupted the life of a complacent teenager in South Dakota. It disrupted a cold, hard resistance to historic truth in the boroughs of New York City and the center of Manhattan. It disrupted the high walls between denominations and the even higher walls between the races and classes to form an unprecedented unity and movement to reach the metro region of New York. And it has begun to make use of the new and close connections between the great global cities of the world to spread many of these same influences and effects to other urban centers. This is the story of all that, and - if you're a Christian minister or lay leader - you could hardly find a more encouraging book to read today.
An attempt by campaigners to challenge a change in the law, which they believe will make assisted suicides easier, has been rejected for a second time.
Merv and Nikki Kenward, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, originally began legal proceedings after the Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders amended the prosecution policy for assisted suicide in October 2014. Their original request for a judicial review on the change was rejected.
The fracking industry has praised the Church of England (CoE) after two groups at the church tentatively backed the controversial technology as a way to help the UK cut carbon emissions.
Shale gas was a “potentially useful element” in switching to a low-carbon economy as it was cleaner than coal, so long as it did not harm renewable energy's expansion, a church briefing paper said.
Thousands of British couples who are struggling to have children could benefit from a new "three-parent" IVF technique that has enabled a previously infertile woman to give birth.
Doctors announced yesterday that a healthy boy had been delivered after the world’s first operation of its kind, but some scientists warned that the treatment could be unsafe and could give women false hope.
In a maverick experiment that one expert has compared to a "genetic head transplant", a fertility clinic in Ukraine fertilised a 34-year-old woman’s eggs with her partner’s sperm and then transferred their combined genes into an egg taken from a donor.
A report is launched today which estimates that 100,000 people are alive in Northern Ireland because the Abortion Act of 1967 was not implemented here.
Dawn McAvoy of Both Lives Matter said: "The debate around abortion is in danger of becoming polarised by those only concerned with the unborn child on the one hand and those solely concerned with the rights of the women on the other. The reality is that both lives matter.
"There are people alive in Northern Ireland today who would not have been born if the 1967 Abortion Act had been introduced here. People we all know and love – spouses, children, friends and family. We have always known this to be the case, the question was how many."
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A spoof letter has been making the rounds of the internet these past few days, poking fun at the dean of St Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow over his use of the Koran in his Epiphany service. The author is unknown.