Britain
Why ‘proud Hindu’ Rishi Sunak’s rise to British prime minister is a big deal
By Murali Balaji — October 26, 2022
(RNS) — A Hindu now leads a country that for two centuries subjugated Hindus around the world.
Indians embrace UK’s new Hindu prime minister as their own
By Sheikh Saaliq — October 25, 2022
(AP) — British people of Indian descent celebrated their new prime minister as a “proud Hindu," saying he did not shy away from embracing his faith and Indian culture.
UK sanctions Russian Orthodox head; decries forced adoption
By Associated Press — June 16, 2022
LONDON (AP) — Truss also targeted children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, who has been accused of enabling the taking of 2,000 vulnerable children from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine and facilitating their forced adoptions in Russia.
Kardashian West helps fly Afghan women soccer players to UK
By Jill Lawless and David Keyton — November 18, 2021
A plane chartered by the reality star and carrying more than 30 teenage players and their families, about 130 people in all, landed at Stansted Airport near London.
Survey: UK teens are more likely than millennials to believe in God
By Jack Jenkins — December 29, 2020
(RNS) — The number is up from January, suggesting some may have embraced a belief in God during the pandemic.
The true story of a Jewish news agency that peddled fake news to undo Hitler
By Menachem Wecker — October 1, 2018
(RNS) — A subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency also reportedly tried, in vain, to work with the FBI to plant anti-Nazi stories, and may have collaborated with the KGB.
No longer the default, Church of England goes to battle in religious marketplace
By Catherine Pepinster — September 20, 2018
LONDON (RNS) — For the past two years the Church of England has committed itself to developing a strong presence online, with a particular target of attracting people who do not regularly go to church.
Defending Islam, gays and Blackpool, Brits oppose Franklin Graham’s UK visit
By Rosie Dawson — September 12, 2018
(RNS) — Blackpool’s two ministers to Parliament have also expressed their concern, with one suggesting that Graham’s comments amounted to 'hate speech.'
Labour Party legislator’s resignation increases unease for Britain’s Jews
By Catherine Pepinster — August 31, 2018
LONDON (RNS) — For generations of Jews, Britain has been a safe place to live, but now many Jews are feeling a deep unease about new evidence of anti-Semitism in the country and especially within the left-wing Labour Party.
Analysis: Devastating fire changed the way Britain views Muslims
By Rosie Dawson — June 12, 2018
(RNS) — From the tragedy has perhaps come a growing awareness of the contribution Britain’s Muslims and other faith communities make to their neighbourhoods.
Buffer zone around London abortion clinic is a first for Britain
By Catherine Pepinster — April 13, 2018
(RNS) — The move has buoyed abortion-rights supporters, who are looking for the creation of more such zones around the nation.
More anti-Semitism, but less of it is violent, report says
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 11, 2018
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Violent attacks on Jews worldwide dropped in 2017 despite a rise in other forms of anti-Semitism, researchers reported Wednesday, in a year characterized by normalization and mainstreaming of anti-Semitism not seen in Europe since World War II.
Chief inspector: English schools need to address extremist elements
By Catherine Pepinster — March 7, 2018
(RNS) — Some head teachers who run inner-city schools with predominantly Muslim student bodies have taken issue with conservative Muslim parents who want their children to express their religiosity in school, and in turn accuse the teachers of thwarting religious expression.
Man who drove van into Muslims in London convicted of murder
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 1, 2018
LONDON (AP) — A jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court deliberated for just an hour before finding 48-year-old Darren Osborne guilty of the June 2017 attack in the city's Finsbury Park neighborhood.
It’s no longer Sunday best for the Church of England
By Catherine Pepinster — July 14, 2017
LONDON (RNS) — But will they convince young people it’s a 21st-century institution they want to join?
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