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Housing estate plans put secluded community of nuns at risk, say campaigners
Locals are rallying around a community of nuns in West Malling whose secluded way of life is being threatened by plans to build a new housing estate next door.

Christian street preacher to receive £2,500 payout from Met Police after wrongful arrest
A pastor who had his Bible confiscated as he was handcuffed and taken away in a police car after preaching on the street in London has been awarded £2,500 for wrongful arrest.
'Tread carefully' with the Irish border, church leader warns PM
The bishop of a diocese that straddles the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic has warned Boris Johnson to "tread carefully" with his Brexit plans.

'I Kissed Dating Goodbye' author Joshua Harris now says he is no longer a Christian
"The information that was left out of our announcement is that I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus," the former pastor wrote in an update to Instagram

Brits are more concerned about climate change than Brexit, poll finds
The Government can no longer ignore climate change, Christian Aid has warned after a survey found that UK adults see it as a greater cause for concern than even Brexit.

Over 100 faith leaders call on Boris Johnson to accept at least 10,000 refugees a year
The former Home Secretary announced last month that the UK would accept 5,000 refugees from 2020 to 2021, but the letter asks the Prime Minister to increase this number to 10,000.

Are we just physical beings or is there more to us than that?
Scientist and apologist Dr Sharon Dirckx talks to Christian Today about the limits of the popular idea that we are little more than a series of chemical reactions and why the evidence stacks up for a more meaningful explanation.

Investigation launched into use of puberty blockers among children
The ethics of allowing children to take puberty blockers in order to transition to a different gender is to be investigated.

Traditional prayers replaced with children's poetry readings at Brighton council meetings
The mayor of Brighton and Hove is to drop the tradition of prayers being said before council meetings, replacing them with poems read by children.

Salvation Army works with Coronation Street on modern slavery plot
The story line reflects an explosion in nail bars across the UK that has given rise to concerns around exploitation and slave labour.

Christian group questions Boris Johnson's plans to raise higher tax band
Church Action for Tax Justice has questioned Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to raise the higher tax threshold from £50,000 to £80,000 at a time when more people across Britain are turning to food banks to ensure they have enough to eat.

No-deal Brexit must be avoided at all costs, warns Bishop of Gibraltar
'Bishop in Europe' Dr Robert Innes has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a warning that a no-deal Brexit will be "disastrous" for the UK.

Tom Hanks stars in new movie about church minister who touched generations of Americans
Tom Hanks plays the lead role of real-life TV icon Fred Rogers, a Presbyterian minister whose popular show, "Mr Rogers' Neighborhood", ran for over 30 years.

Evangelicals are knowledgeable about their own religion, less so about other faiths - poll
When trying to answer questions about other world religions (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and global religious demography), Christian respondents did not fare as well as Jews, atheists, and agnostics.

Americans view followers of different faiths more positively than evangelicals
Evangelicals may be influential in the US but that doesn't mean they are popular as new research by Pew Research has found that followers of other faiths are likely to be held in higher regard.

Philippines cathedral re-opens six months after deadly terror attacks
"Security was really tight â police and soldiers locked down an entire block of the city. Yet the cathedral was packed," says Aid to the Church in Need's Jonathan Luciano.