Football benefactor brings Glasgow virgin into play

The managing director of one of the world’s most illustrious football clubs, Barcelona FC, has joined other Spanish philanthropists in donating a statue of the Black Madonna to St Aloysius’ Roman Catholic Church in Glasgow. The statue concerned is a copy...

Archbishops visit immigration detention centre

As questions about the fairness of UK migration policy once more come into the spotlight, the Anglican archbishops of Canterbury and York have been visiting the Oakington Immigration Detention Centre as part of a trip to Cambridge. They met the multi-faith chaplaincy...

Brown accused of treating migrants as second-class people

Home Office plans to introduce an “earned citizenship” system for immigrants from outside the European Union who want to become British have been attacked as potentially descriminatory and degrading by campaigners. Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave strong...

Oxford centre to conduct scientific study of religious belief

Anthropologists, neurologists, philosophers, psychologists, theologians and other specialists are to conduct a £2 million three-year study into the nature and formation of religious belief. The work will be funded by the John Templeton Foundation and carried out at...