After Kenyan authorities reported that Al-Shabaab terrorists attacked a bus near the northeastern village of El Wak, attempting to separate Muslims from the Christian passenger, a number of Muslims reportedly stood up against the radical gunmen and told them “to kill them together or leave them alone,”. The Bishop of Garissa in Kenya has said…
“If ‘Satanic Islam’ pastor James McConnell goes to jail I will go with him, insists Muslim cleric” is the headline in the Belfast Telegraph, as the Belfast Pastor faces prosecution for a sermon describing Islam as heathen and satanic. The prosecution of Pastor McConnell, under the 2003 Communications Act, has been described as “absurd” by Dr…
For the 30th year the Westminster Interfaith Multi-Faith Pilgrimage for Peace with the Hounslow Friends of Faith in the Hounslow area took place. Two members of the All Faiths Network also participated. Launching the Pilgrimage were MPs Ruth Cadbury (Brentford & Isleworth) and Seema Malhotra MP (Feltham & Heston) along with Councillor Nisar Malik, Mayor…
A press statement on The Church of England official website welcomes the recent Court of Appeals judgement as “upholding the freedom of clergy to be office holders rather than employees”. The judgement, in the widely reported case regarding former Worcestershire vicar, Mark Sharpe, has agreed with the initial judgement of the Employment Tribunal, which ruled that…
An Anglican Communion delegation has demanded the full inclusion of women at all levels of decision-making and leadership in the church. The delegation submitted the issue as an issue for action and requested that the Anglican Church take positive action toward gender equality. Issues of violence against women, climate change, human trafficking and modern slavery…
Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) are calling for proposed new ‘race and religion’ laws in Myanmar to be scrapped, amid fears they could fuel discrimination and violence Amnesty fear the proposed laws could entrench already widespread discrimination and risk fuelling further violence against religious minorities. Under the four laws currently being debated in…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on Tuesday about recent religious attacks and conversion attempts in the country, affirming his and his Government’s commitment to freedom of religion. Modi was speaking at a national celebration of the Elevation to Sainthood of Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Mother Euphrasia. Here is the text of his speech: I…
radical: characterized by departure from tradition, innovative or progressive (Oxford Dictionary of English) [More from the House of Lords November 27th debate.] Last November the Lords debated the role of religion and belief in British public life. Coming to the debate with a different angle on the role of religion was LORD HASTINGS OF SCARISBRICK, who…
Russia Religion News reports that for the first time in the years of Ukrainian independence, pastors of the Christians of Evangelical Faith [KhVE] of Donetsk and Luhansk provinces were prevented from attending their provincial conference. The pastors were prevented by armed actions. The senior presbyter of the Association of KhVE churches of Donetsk province, Anatoly…
