Education Secretary Michael Gove has declared GCSEs will be "more challenging, more ambitious and more rigorous". GCSEs are to be more rigorous and stretching as part of a major shake-up of...
A cross party group of MPs have called for a ten year plan in order to fix what they are calling a "broken" education system. They have called on the government to put aside billions of pounds for sc...
A British missionary who died while being held in captivity in Nigeria may have suffered a fatal asthma attack, a local newspaper has claimed. Ian Squire, 57, from Shepperton and three British collea...
Catholic Social Action Network calls on Government to act and describes the system as overburdened and under severe pressure. The latest review of the asylum system apparently shows it's overburdened...
A Christian man who has spent six years seeking asylum has appealed to the Prime Minister to allow him to stay in the UK, fearing he and his family face death i Maqsood Bakhsh fled Pakistan in 2012 w...
Britain's first humanist hospital chaplain has defended her role, saying she has the backing of the NHS regulator. Speaking to Premier Christian Radio on her first day as the Non-Religious Pastoral C...
A newly elected mayor has declared she will not attend church services to remember the nations war dead because she is atheist. Eleanor Cohen, the next Labour Mayor of Totnes, said she wouldn't go to...
Christian scientists have joined the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Prime Minister in paying tribute to Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday at the age of 7 Most Rev Justin Welby praised the reno...
An atheist has been appointed for the first time to a post of head chaplain at an NHS trust. Lindsay van Dijk, who identifies as a humanist, will oversee the other chaplains in Buckinghamshire. Accor...
An atheist has succeeded in his campaign to have a secular poster which states there is no God or angels, a few hundred metres away from a park Nativity set. Jerry Bloom sued Shelton in the US state ...
A young boy at an orphanage in the 1960s did not die as a result of an attack by a nun, an inquiry has been told. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard that Samuel Carr died of a brain haemorrhage a...
Religious freedoms in everyday life are being rapidly eroded in modern Britain, a new report warns. Magistrates, teachers, foster parents, doctors, and therapists have been disciplined, demoted, or s...
A church going Australian family who face imminent deportation from the UK are pledging not to give up their fight to stay. Despite an intensive campaign by the family, their church and politicians K...
More parents are naming their children after characters from their favourite TV shows. A study's found babies sharing their name with Breaking Bad characters Jesse and Skyler have risen by up to 70 p...
It is thought up to eight people a day are being referred to special deradicalisation classes aimed at curbing religious extremism. Between June and August 2015, 796 individuals were reported to the ...
The Autumn Statement must include protection for poorer families from expected rises in the cost of living, a coalition of churches is urging the Chancellor. Baptists, Methodists, United Reformists a...
Christians have been warned to avoid complacency in the battle against attempts to legalise assisted dying. The Christian charity CARE has said believers must speak out against the latest bill ...
Guardians of Ancora, the awarding winning app designed to help children engage with faith, is being translated for the first time. Welsh Christians will now have access the Scripture Union game which...
Social workers were unaware of an internet video showing the "exorcism" of a woman whose two-year-old son was later murdered, a serious case review has revealed An inquiry by Wolverhampton Safeguardi...
Christian guesthouse owners ordered to pay damages after turning away a gay couple have lost their Supreme Court fight against the ruling. The Christian owners of a BB say they're worried about the '...
