A decision by the Supreme Court to refuse an appeal to a terminally-ill man wanting to challenge the UK's law on assisted dying has been welcomed by a prominent Dr Peter Saunders, who is the campaign...
The Church has been challenged to see relationships as a health issue as well as a spiritual one, as Mental Health Awareness Week comes to a close. Mental Health Awareness Week has been running for 1...
The family of a Christian and the only Scot to die at Auschwitz have attended a special reunion to view her hand written will. Jane Haining's last will and testament was among treasures found in a ch...
It includes good practice advice for employers such as how to tell if a religion or belief is genuine, the kinds of religion and belief requests employers will New guidance has been published today ...
There are approximately 6,500 fewer first-year students taking religious studies or theology at university than there were eight years ago, figures suggest. According to the British Academy, the numb...
On a week when extreme fundamentalists terrorised parts of Paris, killing dozens, new research suggests religious differences are a 'significant factor', but no The Religion and Global Uncertainties ...
Worries caused by the UK's exit from the European Union cannot be alleviated by belief in a religion, a study has found. The research by psychologists compared people with strong beliefs in either Go...
There's hope the teaching of religious education (RE) in schools will improve thanks to changes made in the way regulator Ofsted inspects. Campaigners for better RE say the new school inspection fram...
New criteria proposals have been launched for GCSE and A Level courses in R.E. as part of a public consultation. The Catholic Education Service (CES) says the plans will ensure a more 'academically r...
Renaming Religious Education (RE) as Religion and Worldviews and broadening the curriculum will ensure lessons better reflect life in modern Britain, a major ne Agnosticism, atheism, humanism and sec...
New rules for teaching RE unveiled to improve the subject's status within the education system. New guidelines for teaching Religious Education have been unveiled in the hope of improving the subject...
A campaigner who has devoted four decades to promoting freedom of religion has been given a special honour by the Queen. Mervyn Thomas, founder of the charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), ha...
A campaigner who spent decades speaking out on behalf of believers around the world living under pressure for their faith has died aged 74. Rev Stuart Windsor (pictured above, right), a Special Ambas...
A Christian street preacher will face no further action after the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the religious harassment charges he was due to face. Michael Jones, 66, was arrested in Beverley, Y...
It's been reported that hate crimes towards faith groups and minorities are on the rise in London. Research by Faith & Belief Forum and the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck showed that ...
There's been a 40 per cent increase in religious hate crime in the UK over the past year. Home Office data shows there were 8,336 incidents across England and Wales where religion was a factor.Of tha...
A letter in the Guardian signed by various religious leaders is asking Theresa May to change her mind and to sign a UN treaty banning use of nuclear weapons.&nb A number of MPs have joined Rt Rev Ste...
Just one in ten voters in marginal constituencies say religious liberty has improved under David Cameron. A poll commissioned by The Christian Institute found that 11% thought religious liberty had ...
A survivors' group has hit out at "unconvincing" apologies from a religious order that ran a controversial care home where children were allegedly abused. John Scott QC, representing In Care Abuse Su...
Catholic religious orders from around the world have apologised for having failed to respond when their priests raped children, acknowledging that their family- The two umbrella organisations represe...
