Religion news 27 October 2026 ➡️ Israel election 'affects Jews worldwide' ➡️ Evangelical and Catholic vote decisive as Lula re-elected in Brazil ➡️ US evening of prayer for safe elections ➡️ Welsh schools 'failing to provide consistent religious education' religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Religion news 26 October 2026 ➡️ Board of Deputies says Green party has become a racist party ➡️ Nuns rebuke 12 Catholic bishops who prayed over Trump ➡️ Jordan church shooting leaves nine dead and 40 injured religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Religion news 23 October 2026 ➡️Muslim news website Hyphen to close as UAE funding withdrawn ➡️ The next CofE General Synod ‘will be as deadlocked as the last’ ➡️Fears that Southwell Minster may close due to financial crisis ➡️Church challenges order to stop amplified street preaching religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Religion news 22 October 2026 ➡️BBC Daily Service to be broadcast at 0545 on BBC local radio ➡️Pope Leo XIV's doctors confirm 'no further treatment is necessary' ➡️Christian climate groups condemn Jackdaw gas field approval ➡️Churches offer prayers for Aberfan on 60th anniversary of disaster religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Religion news 21 October 2026 ➡️BBC Daily Service moving to local radio and BBC Sounds ➡️‘A ministry of tears’: Aberfan remembered 60 years on ➡️Schools urged to treat antisemitism as distinct category of harm ➡️Jains and Christians unite to promote non-violence and peace religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Our Creating Connections series, where faith groups meet the media, comes to Bangor University on Monday 2 November. Hear the stories about religion in Wales, meet journalists and create new networks for fresh conversations. Find out more about the programme and reserve a place here: religionmediacentre.org.uk/e…

Religion news 20 October 2026 ➡️Kenyan pastor of starvation sect guilty of 191 murders ➡️Priest killed after crucifix falls from church wall in Ecuador ➡️Pope Leo calls President Zelensky about humanitarian aid ➡️New global research initiative to explore Mysticism religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Religion news 19 October 2026 ➡️Pope Leo thanks hospital staff and those who prayed ➡️BBC religion cuts 'undermine religious literacy' at a time of critical importance ➡️British faith representatives join G20 Interfaith Forum in Salt Lake City ➡️New teaching resource to bring authentic Muslim voices into RE lessons religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Religion news 16 October 2026 ➡️NUJ says BBC Religion and Ethics department to be ‘slashed’ ➡️Pope’s eldest brother Louis also being treated for cancer ➡️Catholic network welcomes decision not to livestream execution ➡️The ‘Awe Walks’ boosting compassion and gratitude religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Religion news 15 October 2026 ➡️Pope Leo progressing well, but diagnosis 'brings new urgency' ➡️Bishop Anne Dyer suspended again, months before retirement ➡️MPs to debate bringing Jagtar Singh Johal home from India ➡️Dublin Hotel accused of antisemitism after 70 rooms ‘cancelled’ religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

Andy Burnham is considering a visit to the Vatican to meet Pope Leo XIV in the spring, according to senior Vatican diplomat Archbishop Sir Paul Gallagher. Speaking at The Tablet lecture, he said having a Catholic as a political leader is significant because they are comfortable with Catholic social teaching concepts. He highlighted the role of the Vatican in keeping lines of dialogue open amid global conflicts, and said leaders were asking for moral guidance on AI. Report by @CPsPepTalk religionmediacentre.org.uk/n…

Religioon news 14 October 2026 ➡️Pope Leo diagnosed with lung cancer ➡️Andy Burnham considers visit to the Vatican in the spring ➡️Churches urged to tackle causes, not just symptoms, of poverty ➡️Muslim Council of Britain says response to anti Muslim violence is ‘long overdue’ religionmediacentre.org.uk/m…

The briefing concludes with @rosiedawson explaining that data is also being collected about #ChristianNationalism in other European countries and how that correlates with what the findings are in the UK and the USA.

Restore, reclaim, reform are in the US as well. 'Again' is the most powerful word in the MAGA mantra and a sense of nostalgia. The narrative arc of these movements is loss, nostalgia and restoration - which the centre and centre centre-left have not met at that narrative level - @robertpjones

Prof John Denham says this group has, in its own terms, a coherent story of the nation and its relationship with Christianity. @Robertpjones says the question resonates, as in the USA there has been a sense of failure in the moral narrative in politics, and there's been a vacuum there.

Peter Adams, who is involved with church community work in Luton, says the likes of Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo etc are now very different in what they say about their faith and is trying to understand what is driving this.

Jaime Ashworth from the @CCJUK and @Laura_E_Marks are asking about attitudes to Jews in the report. @theosnick says they did ask the question, but haven't made sense of the data yet. It is on the @Theosthinktank website.

We need to listen to and ask Christian nationalists what it is that is so vexing about society at the moment and get into the heart of how legitimate or not their concerns are - @theosnick

Ideas are much easier to spread in the massively decentralised communication network in which we live, whereby ideas such as replacement and conspiracy theories are much easier to spread than ten years ago - @theosnick