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There are calls for an end to compulsory collective, broadly Christian worship in non-religious state schools after a Church of England academy trust agreed
to provide an alternative in one school.
The internal workings of a vast chain of Chinese internment camps used to detain at least a million people from the nation's Muslim minorities are laid out
in leaked Communist Party documents published on Sunday.
About 250m chickens slaughtered annually in the UK are placed in electric water baths, despite the availability of more humane methods of slaughter. This is
partly to meet demand among Muslims for chicken slaughtered according to halal principles. Millions of these chickens end up being eaten by non-Muslims.
An anti-abortion group under investigation by the police has been accused of trying to interfere in the general election by working with a religious
organisation to target a prominent Labour figure.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry says it has summoned Norway's ambassador to convey concern over the fact that a man burned Islam's holy book and was caught on
video. The man who burnt the Quran in the video was physically attacked.
The Church of England has ordered an independent review into its handling of a sexual abuse case that resulted in four bishops and an archbishop being
accused of failing to respond properly to a victim's disclosures.
British women are increasingly being pressured into polygamous relationships or left without child support when relationships break up because UK law does
not offer adequate protection to spouses in religious marriages, campaigners have warned.
Nimco Ali says this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women we need to make sure that life will be better for a new generation.
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday launched a new political party called the Alliance for Brazil, which will put an emphasis on God,
family and homeland, as he tries to win back evangelical voters.
Politicians need to end their fetishisation of faith schools and face the fact that a religiously divided education system is unfit for the future, argues
Stephen Evans.
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