The extraordinary protests by British Muslims in Luton against The Royal Anglian 2nd Battallion after the return of the troops from Iraq have led to widespread protests. Quite a few from religious ministers and groups have come in today. There could be a crackdown on the banned extremist group, al M...

As Richard Owen and I report, Pope Benedict XVI has issued an endearingly humble pastoral letter to Catholic bishops around the world explaining more of the rationale for lifting the excommunications of Holocaust denier Bishop Richard Williamson and three other Lefebvrist bishops. Cathcon has ...

In Brazil, the Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated the mother of a nine-year-old girl and the doctors who intervened to save her life by having her twins aborted. She had been raped repeatedly by her stepfather, who has not been excommunicated. The Holy See has defended the excommunication, as ...

Any student of human failings understands that the deadliest of the seven deadly sins is not greed, but pride. It has taken the Archbishop of Canterbury to point this out to the Government in a thunderously excellent speech tonight in a public lecture in Cardiff. See our story here and the full tran...

One Law for All, the group that campaigns against the adoption of Islamic law or sharia in the UK, is planning a mass demonstration in the centre of London tomorrow, Saturday. 'We know we have a huge fight ahead and can only win if we do this together. We must mobilise a mass anti-racist movemen...

See our splash tonight on the latest Dignitas suicide, this time of Peter and Penny Duff. In relation to this, The Times has obtained copies of the draft General Medical Council guidelines on treatment of the terminally ill. The medical profession is advised to give consideration to a dying patient&...

Don't know if I can keep this up, but my twitfeeds are sending in some great stories so I will try on a regular basis to share some of the best with you. From @Gillibrand: Holy See puts a stop to joint Anglican-Catholic Pentecostal service. 'The Vatican has put a stop to a joint Pentec...

Christians will soon be examining this question once more as Easter approaches at a time of unusually penitential recession, with the 'walls of Jericho' tumbling around us. A priest in the US sent me this yesterday, which throws a little light on the issue. You might have seen versions of it...

Gene Robinson has given one of the clearest explanations I've ever seen on how he came to be baptised with a girl's name, Vicky Gene. It comes in a remarkably frank interview in the latest issue of Third Way Magazine. He also describes how he battled against his homosexuality, and finally co...

Unlike his parents, aunts, uncles, in fact his entire family, Fred Barschak survived the Holocaust. He was one of 10,000 Jewish children who came here on the Kindertransport. Most never saw their parents again. Below he writes movingly, and exclusively for Articles of Faith, on why the lifting of Ri...