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A government minister has told Premier there is no merit in Archbishop Justin Welby's claim that under current policy he would count as an extremist.
Lord Bourne, the peer responsible for faith issues, heaped praise on the clergyman and said he was "held in great respect".
The Archbishop of Canterbury had been quoted by the Daily Telegraph earlier this month revealing that he once told a senior Government minister he would be labelled an extremist under the government definition.
The US city of Bloomington in Indiana has renamed Good Friday and Columbus Day as "Spring Holiday" and "Fall Holiday" to be more "inclusive".
Mayor John Hamilton said the move would "better reflect cultural sensitivity in the workplace", local media said.
Bloomington is a traditionally liberal city. Its county gave Hillary Clinton 58.6% in the presidential election.
IN THE FIRST nine months since new legislation was introduced, 149 people have been granted permission to legally register as a different gender from that noted at their birth.
Of the 149 gender recognition certificates issued, four were granted to applicants who were aged 16 and 17 years old. Twenty-one were issued to non-Irish born residents of the State.
The bells have rung out after two years of silence in the Mar Korkeis church in the town of Bashiqa, some 15 km (10 miles) north of Mosul, Islamic State's last major city stronghold in Iraq.
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters retook the town on Nov. 7, ending two years of rule by the hardline Sunni group which persecuted Christians and other minorities in the Nineveh plains, one of the world's oldest centres of Christianity.
Women trilled to celebrate the moment when a new crucifix was erected on the church, replacing one that was broken by the Islamic State militants.
A campaign to push for abortion to be removed from the justice statutes and decriminalised is to be launched this month by the country’s newest political party.
Sophie Walker, leader of the non-partisan Women’s Equality party, said it was time that abortion was made a sexual health and human rights issue, rather than left languishing under “Victorian criminal law”, where a life prison sentence still exists for procuring a termination. This is a flagship policy for the party, which will hold its first conference in Manchester next weekend. It hopes that with pressure from its supporters, other political parties will take up the issue.
Claims that the atrocities of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have “nothing to do with Islam” are harming efforts to confront and combat extremism, the Archbishop of Canterbury has insisted.
Religious leaders of all varieties must “stand up and take responsibility” for the actions of extremists who profess to follow their faith, the Most Rev Justin Welby said.
He argued that unless people recognise and attempt to understand the motivation of terrorists they will never be able to combat their ideology effectively.
The unexpected US election result last week was undoubtedly a vote for change. It will take some time to see exactly what sort of change Donald Trump will bring, whether he will deliver on all of his platform, what his priorities will be, and how he will respond to various domestic and international crises as they arise. However, there are some things that have already changed simply by virtue of his election, and the campaign it followed.
The Washington State Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in the case of the Christian florist being sued by the state for refusing to provide arrangements for a same-sex marriage ceremony more than three years ago.
Barronelle Stutzman faces the possibility of losing her business, her home and her life savings unless the state supreme court overturns lower-court rulings that Stutzman violated state discrimination laws.
Pornography websites that refuse to check ages before allowing people to watch explicit videos will be forcibly blocked, it has been announced.
In a bid to better protect children from viewing adult videos, Tory ministers have said that internet providers could face punishments if they fail to act on the demand for a site to be blocked by The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which regulates age verification.
It is an attempt to force porn websites to make visitors reveal how old they are before they can gain access – seen as a key step to stopping children inadvertently watching explicit content.
A bill giving the UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world has passed into law with barely a whimper, meeting only token resistance over the past 12 months from inside parliament and barely any from outside.
The Investigatory Powers Act, passed on Thursday, legalises a whole range of tools for snooping and hacking by the security services unmatched by any other country in western Europe or even the US.