We are supposed to believe that a Christ Church undergraduate was casually surveying the website of the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy, as students at the University of Oxford regularly do, and chanced upon a piece written by the Dean…
A letter has arrived at Cranmer's Tower: Dear Archbishop Cranmer, My name is Nur. It was Ayshe, but that name was forbidden by Xinjiang Communist Party, so I changed…
"I am sure that Members across the House will wish to join me in marking Holocaust Memorial Day this Sunday," proclaimed the Prime Minister in PMQs on Wednesday. "It is…
Today is Europe Day, marking the anniversary on 9th May 1950 of the Schuman Declaration which proposed the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). By pooling…
David Cameron has pledged to fight for Turkey to be admitted to the European Union. This, he avers, would place them at "the top table of European politics", where,…
The legal definition of genocide is not restricted to genus: it is defined as the intent "to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious…
The Church of England is all over the place today. Indeed, one headline seems almost purposely designed to degrade the other. In the red corner we have Archbishop Justin…
Jon Snow, the aging abbot of Channel 4 News, has tweeted about the death of Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's henchman deputy, who has died in prison. Apparently Snow "spent…
This is a guest post by the Rev'd Canon Dr Gavin Ashenden – author, theologian and Chaplain to the Queen (one of c35) ___________________ I had never heard of the…
Labour peer Greville Janner (left), aged 86, will apparently not be prosecuted over allegations of historic child abuse because the Crown Prosecution Service says his evidence could not be…
Pope Francis delivered a speech at St Peter's in Rome to commemorate the slaughter of 1.5million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War, a century ago.…
The Archbishop of Canterbury made a pronouncement last year which was somewhat unusual in modern Anglican geo-political quibbling and hedging. The statement is still on the Lambeth Palace website,…
St John's is a thriving Scottish Episcopal church at the heart of Scotland’s beautiful capital city. Here we aim to express love for God and neighbour in all that…
"Yet, at this time of great peril, I deeply regret that the British Government seems to be stepping back, rather than stepping up," writes Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander…
Our politicians are at last speaking about the terror, torture, mass murder and genocide being meted out upon Christians and other minorities by the Islamic State in Iraq. Their assessment…