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Churches and other places of worship have a vital role to play in the post pandemic recovery, expanding their contribution as important community hubs, new research shows.

There has been a “deeply disturbing” upsurge in anti-Semitism in recent years, the communities secretary says.

A spokesperson from the BBC said on Saturday: “At no point did anyone on the programme mock religious beliefs.”

Four men have been arrested by officers investigating a video which appeared to show antisemitic abuse being shouted from a car in north London, police have said.

Police have launched an investigation after a rabbi was attacked outside his synagogue.

People have been filmed driving through London in a convoy of cars shouting antisemitic obscenities.

“In normal times, the violence & vandalism, & the vile anti Catholic prejudice that was on display, would have been utterly unacceptable.”

Cross-party messages from across the UK have been delivered to mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of Humanists UK.

TEACHERS are implanting “unhelpful misconceptions” about religion and are failing to prepare pupils for a multi-religious and multi-secular society, a new Ofsted report on religious education says.

Ex-government equality adviser calls for ‘legislation that protects all LGBT+ people, without exception’