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State-run primary schools in the Republic of Ireland are to take formal religious instruction for pupils off the timetable.
The umbrella body for community national schools has decided that preparation for sacraments, such as First Communion, will no longer take place within the school day.
A boy wearing a dress to school is "not a problem", the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.
Speaking on LBC radio the most senior cleric in the Church of England said he would tell a concerned parishioner that they should help their child "understand".
Debate surrounding meat prepared according to controversial Islamic rules has been reignited amid a claim several Christian schools in Lancashire are complicit in the practise.
A number of Church of England and Catholic schools are offering pupils a type of halal meat from animals which are not stunned before they are killed, according to the leader of the county council.
Schools should be held to account over the quality of their Religious Education (RE) lessons, a new report has concluded.
The Commission on Religious Education has also called for a 'national entitlement' - or a minimum level of RE provision - for state-school pupils.
More than 600 doctors are in revolt over moves by one of the country's top medical colleges to back abortion on demand.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) will today hold a secret vote to relax the laws governing the procedure.
A family in Britain has pulled their children out of a Church of England primary school after their six-year-old son’s classmate was allowed to wear a dress to school and identify “as a girl some days and as a boy other days.”
A British family is planning to sue their six-year-old son’s school after boys were allowed to come to class in dresses.
Husband and wife Nigel and Sally Rowe, removed their son from the elementary school after a male classmate arrived in a dress.
Nigel and Sally Rowe said it was a major concern that led them to take their two sons of out of a Church of England primary school in the Diocese of Portsmouth and home-school them instead.
A couple are to challenge a Church of England primary’s transgender policy after removing their sons in protest.
Earlier this week, almost a quarter of backbench Conservative MPs put their name to a Manifesto to Strengthen Families and called on the prime minister to back the family as she plots a new social reform narrative to define her government as more than one long Brexit negotiation. In producing a comprehensive list of policy ideas to strengthen families, backbenchers in the Conservative Party have given the prime minister a much needed policy platform to help families growing up in our poorest areas.