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Is there another Islamic agenda behind the national Muslim war memorial to the brave soldiers who died for us during two world wars?

March 15, 2024

Timing is everything. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the government will fund a national war memorial to those Muslim soldiers who fought on our side during the two world wars and in subsequent conflicts. We have also been reminded that other religions have similar memorials. And that is true. But is there anything more

Religion, knowledge and liberty seen through the Michaela School prayer row

January 29, 2024

I almost certainly would have been expelled from the Michaela Community School within a week. Like most of my so-called “boomer” generation, attending school I had my suspicions about “the beaks” – as teachers were called in the Beano comic – I excelled at “projects” and flunked tests, chattered incessantly on the back seats and

The Michaela Community School ‘prayer ban’: facing the awkward realities of a multicultural society

January 24, 2024

The Michaela Community School in Wembley, North London is, by many metrics, a success story. But right now the school and its erudite headteacher, Katherine Birbalsingh, are facing renewed criticism, intimidation and legal challenge after a conflict with pupils over group prayer “rituals” at break time. The Catholic onlooker at this drama is left in

Islam’s problem with Jews goes back millennia

October 17, 2023

The events in Israel and Gaza have presented the world with a clash of political ambitions of the most intense kind, bathed in the deeply emotive murder and rape of civilians, extending to the burning and slaughter of babies. But they have also presented the world with a clash of ethical systems. The Muslim protagonists

Religious violence now spreading in UK

September 22, 2022

While the country mourned the late Queen, sectarianism erupted on the streets

Islamic insurgency intensifies in eastern DRC

May 19, 2021

A scene of destruction in Butembo-Beni diocese on 24 March 2021, following an attack by suspected ADF/NALU forces. Photo courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need Islamic insurgents in the Democratic Republic of Congo are engaged in “relentless” violence. A bishop from a hard-hit diocese in the country has given a leading Catholic

Christians and Muslims must move from confrontation to cooperation, says cardinal

May 20, 2018

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran issues message as Ramadan begins

Iceland is the latest front in the war on religious freedom

April 20, 2018

The proposed ban on male circumcision is another example of secular authorities itching to legislate on religious belief