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Mothering Sunday: Not a happy day for everyone, so tread carefully
Mothering Sunday: Not a happy day for everyone, so tread carefully

Mother's Day – if we celebrate it at all – has got to be more than hearts and flowers. If we believe in a God of love and freedom, all of us in church need to think carefully about how we communicate that for everyone on this, the most sensitive of days.

Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch and 40 faith leaders urge support for refugee children in Calais
Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch and 40 faith leaders urge support for refugee children in Calais

Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch and a delegation of 40 faith leaders have urged the UK and French governments to act immediately to help unaccompanied children living in the refugee camp in Calais.

5 Bible passages for Mothers\' Day
5 Bible passages for Mothers' Day

Mothers' Day is just around the corner in the United Kingdom, and many are trying to find the best gift to make their mums happy for the occasion as it only comes round once a year.

New job for hijab-wearing Christian college professor
New job for hijab-wearing Christian college professor

The Christian academic who was first suspeded and then left her college after she stated that Muslims and Christians worship the same God has a new job.

Hundreds of children suffer \'soul murder\' at hands of clergy abusers
Hundreds of children suffer 'soul murder' at hands of clergy abusers

A Catholic diocese in the US is to publish a full list of all priests who have been accused of child sex crimes after a Grand Jury report disclosed a horrifiying catalogue of abuse.

More than 500 rescued by international anti-slavery organisation IJM
More than 500 rescued by international anti-slavery organisation IJM

More than 560 people, including women and children, have been rescued from slavery in India under International Justice Mission's (IJM) largest ever rescue operation.

Jesus would vote for Bernie Sanders, says Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jesus would vote for Bernie Sanders, says Neil deGrasse Tyson

If Jesus was a voter in the US presidential elections, he would likely vote for Bernie Sanders, according to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in a tweet

Christian refugees from Syria find sanctuary in Istanbul church
Christian refugees from Syria find sanctuary in Istanbul church

Syrian refugees stranded in Turkey are being hosted in a small church in Istanbul where they are being given food and accommodation.

House of Cards: A terrifying insight into a world where God is dead (no spoilers)
House of Cards: A terrifying insight into a world where God is dead (no spoilers)

House of Cards forces us to ask what kind of world we are living in. It is a biting indictment of the 21st Century power-hungry culture of the post-Christian West.

Bangladesh may drop Islam as state religion
Bangladesh may drop Islam as state religion

Bangladesh is seriously considering dropping Islam as the state's national religious amid the rising number of attacks initiated by radical Muslims against people of different religious beliefs.

Mother of black grocer was police officer suspected in killing to come to son\'s funeral
Mother of black grocer was police officer suspected in killing to come to son's funeral

The mother of a black grocer who was allegedly shot by a white police officer wants the officer to attend her son's funeral.

16 shot dead, including 4 nuns, as gunmen target Catholic retirement home
16 shot dead, including 4 nuns, as gunmen target Catholic retirement home

Gunmen have stormed a Catholic-run retirement home in Yemen's southern city of Aden, killing 16 people including four Indian nuns.

Syrian pastor: People are coming to faith, despite civil war and ISIS
Syrian pastor: People are coming to faith, despite civil war and ISIS

The Church in Syria is alive and "more active than any time before" despite the ongoing civil war and Islamic State continuing to tighten its grip on the country, a church leader has told Christian Today.

Romania: Pastor who brought down Communist regime stripped of state honour
Romania: Pastor who brought down Communist regime stripped of state honour

Romania's president has stripped the Hungarian minister who helped trigger the downfall of the infamous Ceaucescu regime of a high state honour.

Millions of Christians worldwide come together in new \'Click to Pray\' app
Millions of Christians worldwide come together in new 'Click to Pray' app

Millions of Christians worldwide can now join in prayer with the Pope via a new app, Click To Pray.

Trump, Falwell and Moore: A fight for the soul of evangelicalism
Trump, Falwell and Moore: A fight for the soul of evangelicalism

In the midst of one of the most tumultuous periods in American political history for generations, we find ourselves in a fight for the soul of evangelicalism. So what is an evangelical? Where does this movement come from? And can we begin to agree on what it means to be an evangelical?