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The Church of England has become a "laughing stock", senior religious figures have warned bishops, after they issued a decree that people in civil
partnerships should not have intercourse.
The queen has appointed Prince William as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, according to a tweet from Kensington
Palace.
An independent faith school was rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted after a 25 year old leaflet promoting an Islamic caliphate was found in its library. The school
has mounted a legal challenge.
Ofsted has criticised a Charedi school which it says "airbrushed" Queen Elizabeth I from history, by redacting information about the former monarch from
textbooks.
Iran's only female Olympic medallist, Kimia Alizadeh, wants to compete for Germany as soon as the next Games in Tokyo, but regardless of whether she achieves
that ambition, she never expects to return to her home country.
The Church of England has angered progressive Christians by stating that sexual intercourse should only take place between heterosexual married couples.
Religion is a significant factor in the criminalisation of homosexuality worldwide.
Is it time to remove the bishops' bench in the House of Lords? Emma Park travels to Westminster to ask Liberal Democrat peer Dick Taverne why he's introduced
a private members' bill to do just that.
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