Britain’s Methodist Council has urged Christians to adopt a positive attitude to Facebook, Twitter and the world of blogging. They will produce guidelines to encourage the creative use of social media.

Natalia Morar, who helped organise Moldova's "Twitter revolution," a 20,000-strong flash protest at the country's parliament building on 7 April, is house arrest by the authorities.

For Good Friday, a New York church has been circulating the story of the Passion, the biblical narrative leading up to Jesus' crucifixion, on the popular social networking site Twitter.