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Most schools are not complying with legal requirements which require them to detail arrangements for students who do not wish to attend religious instruction, according to a new survey.
A letter from clerical abuse survivors says that while the Catholic church made every effort to protect its reputation and resources, it neglected victims and survivors.
Emmanuel Macron has accused the New York Times and other English-speaking media of "legitimising" violence against France by branding the country "racist and Islamophobic".
The principles France is defending may be subtly different from those of the UK, but at the most fundamental level they are shared, says Douglas Murray.
A French prosecutor has asked a criminal court in Paris to sentence the Vatican's former ambassador to France to a 10-month suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a number of young men between 2018 and 2019.
A woman who fled Iran after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for her part in women's protests against the headscarf faces being deported back there after she was arrested in Turkey.
The church was given a key role on the board of our local multi-academy trust – even though there were no faith schools in it. Chris Leng questions the assumptions which lay behind this arrangement.
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