A Black trainee vicar has been denied a position by the Church of England because the demographic of the parishioners in the area he had applied to work was ‘monochrome white working class’ and it might make him feel ‘uncomfortable’. Augustine Tanner-Ihm has hit out at the ‘institutional racism’ in the church after the the … Read more
A village church will remove the ‘Chocolate covered C**n’ gravestone of 1930s entertainer GH Elliot unless relatives come forward to stop them. Dancer Elliot was thrown into the spotlight amid the Black Lives Matter movement after comedian Harry Enfield used him as an example on Radio 4’s Today programme to defend performing in blackface. Elliot’s headstone, … Read more
Archbishop of Canterbury says the Church must ‘repent’ for failing to take action on ‘horrifying’ racism in Britain Archbishop of Canterbury took to social media to address racism in the UK Justin Welby admits the church has also made failings and must do better In a video shared online he stresses the importance of acknowledging … Read more
A Catholic priest was allegedly ‘pressured’ into holding a wedding for a young couple at a Welsh church amid lockdown, with one guest saying ‘coronavirus won’t stop us having a party’. Father Sebastian Jones performed a wedding service for a young couple at St Alban-on-the-Moors in Splott, Cardiff on May 12, after the parents ‘insisted that … Read more
A farmer who started hiring out her goats for Zoom meeting calls as a joke to try and cheer people up amid the coronavirus pandemic has revealed how vicars book ‘Mary’ out for virtual church every Sunday. Speaking to presenters Ruth and Eamonn Holmes on This Morning, Dot, from Lancashire, explained how people from across … Read more
Yoga has been called ‘absolutely incompatible’ with the Christian faith by the Greek Orthodox Church and frown upon people using it to combat coronavirus quarantine stress. The church’s Holy Synod, made up of the patriarch and senior bishops, announced on Wednesday that yoga had ‘no place in the lives of Christians’, as it is a … Read more
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday that President Trump‘s church photo-up was akin to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill surveying bombing damage in England during World War II. McEnany called Trump’s controversial walk to St. John’s church on Monday – that had been directly preceded by ousting Black Lives Matter protesters and their allies … Read more
As Washington, D.C. cleaned up Tuesday morning, Trump took first lady Melania on a trip to the national shrine to Pope John Paul II – a second religious visit in two days that caused church leaders to chastise the president. ‘I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be … Read more
Charlotte Church faces backlash after urging parents to keep their children away from school in foul-mouthed Twitter rant Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 pupils have all been permitted to return to classrooms from today as part of an easing of Britain’s lockdown But mother-of-two Church, 34, has rubbished the move and urged parents to … Read more
Bishops have defended slamming Dominic Cummings‘ 260-mile lockdown trip and insisted politics and religion do mix amid fury at their ‘meddling’ in the scandal. Rev John Inge, Bishop of Worcester, led the defence of the clergy as he said it was ‘a fact’ that the two are linked. He was among a number of religious … Read more