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More than 100 Muslim women have complained about their treatment under two government probes into Sharia law.
The inquiries - one ordered by Theresa May when she was home secretary, and another by the home affairs select committee - are ongoing.
But some women have signed an open letter and said the aim is to ban Sharia councils, not reform them.
What do politicians do after they lose their seat? They write books, silly. Since the collapse of the Liberal Democrats last May, we’ve had volumes from Vince Cable and Norman Baker, neither of which were bestsellers, and can look forward to David Laws’s Coalition in March and Nick Clegg’s Politics in May.
This week it’s the turn of Lynne Featherstone, with the publication of Equal Ever After: The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage and How I Made It Happen. It’s literally that, a minute-by-minute, tub-thumping, 326-page account of how she did it. What made her write it?
Open Doors, Release International and Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) are marking International Day of Prayer for the persecuted Church (IDOP) with new resources to help Christians pray.
IDOP will take place this year on 20 November.
Open Doors found that more than 7,000 people were killed for faith-related reasons during reporting for the 2016 World Watch List.
If this were 1999—the year that I was converted and walked away from the woman and lesbian community I loved—instead of 2016, Jen Hatmaker’s words about the holiness of LGBT relationships would have flooded into my world like a balm of Gilead. How amazing it would have been to have someone as radiant, knowledgeable, humble, kind, and funny as Jen saying out loud what my heart was shouting: Yes, I can have Jesus and my girlfriend. Yes, I can flourish both in my tenured academic discipline (queer theory and English literature and culture) and in my church. My emotional vertigo could find normal once again.
The Kirk is to launch a clerical webchat service to offer spiritual guidance to those who are reluctant to come to church.
The Church of Scotland is looking to reach out to those who have turned their back on traditional religious worship.
As part of the initiative, people will get the chance to book a private chat with a minister online.
It's been reported that children have pelted two priests in Germany with stones shouting 'Allahu Akbar', which means 'God is great' in Arabic.
According to the Daily Express and the German Main-Spitze news site, the children attacked the 47-year-old Ethiopian priest, who was with a fellow clergyman, in Raunheim near Frankfurt.
The pair, who haven't been named, were wearing religious robes and crosses on their way to a Russian Orthodox chapel in Raunheim when the incident happened earlier this week.
A top sharia court has been accused of using its position to 'sabotage' criminal charges brought against men accused of domestic violence.
The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (Mat), based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was set up in 2007 to help resolve civil and family disputes in accordance with Islamic law.
Doctors have accused a medical body of suggesting that unborn babies with Down’s syndrome should be aborted because it will cost too much to care for them.
More than 100 doctors, nurses and other medics have signed a letter attacking the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists for saying the NHS should calculate the ‘cost effectiveness’ of supporting those with the condition.
Bridget Jones actress Sally Phillips, whose son Oliver has Down’s, also branded the suggestion as ‘dark’.
A couple who have been living together for the past six years will this week demand the right to a civil partnership, arguing that they face discrimination under the present law, which gives gay couples the option of marriage or a civil partnership but denies the latter to heterosexual couples.
Earlier this year the high court ruled against a legal challenge to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 by Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan. On Wednesday their appeal against that ruling will be heard in the high court, with judgment expected to be reserved. The couple say they are prepared to take their case to the supreme court and the European Court of Human Rights if necessary.
Irish voters could face a divorce referendum before an abortion poll as a Fine Gael proposal to reduce the compulsory waiting time for separated couples appears to be facing no opposition, not even from the Iona Institute.
At present, the constitution requires that married couples be separated for four years before qualifying for divorce. Josepha Madigan, a Fine Gael TD, has proposed reducing this to two years.