Baptists from across the country will be travelling to Brighton on Friday (4 May) for the Baptist Assembly, the biggest Baptist event of the year.

The leader of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has urged churches in the UK and Ireland to increase their hospitality toward migrants, and allow themselves to be changed by immigration.

Those working with asylum seekers facing deportation say that the Home Office has been rounding up Sudanese nationals who have been refused asylum in the UK, with the intention of deporting them.