James Macintyre

• Florida school shooting survivors plan march on Washington, blast Trump for playing politics

  Young survivors of last Wednesday's school shooting in Florida have announced that they are planning a national march on Washington to demand political action on gun control, while Donald Trump was attacked for playing politics over the tragedy.

• Pope Francis regularly meets with 'annihilated' sex abuse victims, Vatican confirms

  Pope Francis regularly meets with victims of sexual abuse, the Vatican has confirmed, after a record was released of a conversation the pope had with Jesuits in Peru in which he revealed he holds the meetings with survivors on Fridays.

• Major Christian conference to act as 'rallying cry' for churches to tackle UK poverty

  The high-profile MPs David Lammy and Iain Duncan Smith will debate poverty in the UK at a conference later this month made up of church ministers, youth workers and young people organised by the Christian urban youth work charity XLP.

• 'Unseen': How this Christian charity is using a moving film to tackle Ireland's youth suicide problem

  An international Christian charity, Christ in Youth, will be hosting worldwide premieres of its award-winning new film 'Unseen' which examines the effects of suicide among young people in Ireland.

• The question no one is asking about the Tom Daley baby news

  You do not have to be opposed to gay adoption to be concerned for the woman at the heart of this publicity

• Christian charity Cafod sacks former Oxfam employee linked to Haiti sexual exploitation scandal

  The leading Catholic charity Cafod has sacked a staff member after it emerged that he was among former Oxfam employees accused of sexually exploiting vulnerable people in Haiti in 2011.

• Israeli police recommend indicting Benjamin Netanyahu over corruption claims

  The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year premiership has been threatened by corruption allegations after Israel's police recommended that he be indicted on charges of bribery and breach of trust.

• Churches in Jerusalem fined millions of dollars by city council

  The Jerusalem municipality has issued fines of millions of dollars to properties owned by the various churches and the United Nations, amid a rivalrous political dispute with the finance ministry of Israel.

• Archbishop of Canterbury says George Bell's accuser is as important as late bishop's reputation

  The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has said that the woman who alleged that Bishop George Bell abused her should be 'treated equally importantly' as the reputation of the late bishop, and that she is 'not an inconvenience to be overlooked'.

• Irish Bishops hit out at 'unrestricted access to abortion' ahead of referendum on law change in May

  Irish bishops have reiterated that they are opposed to 'unrestricted access to abortion' ahead of the forthcoming referendum on the controversial area in May this year.

• Holy Land sees 'extraordinary boom' in pilgrimages despite political tensions over Jerusalem

  This year began with an 'extraordinary boom' in pilgrimages to the Holy Land despite geo-political tensions over Jerusalem, according to the Christian Information Centre there, which confirmed statistics from the Israeli ministry for tourism.

• George Bell, Justin Welby and the perils of navigating a binary argument

  Either George Bell was a giant of the Anglican Church who helped rescue Jewish children from the Nazi regime and, against the grain, heroically opposed the bombing of Dresden, or he was a child abuser and all his achievements are for the birds.