Euro 2008 star mixes football and faith

Swiss soccer player Johan Vonlanthen says he has undergone phenomenal changes since he made his debut as an international soccer player – he has discovered that much of his success on the field is attributed to his Christian faith – writes Anna Blachut....

True faith is always asking questions

The Times columnist Matthew Parris recently gave former Prime Minister Tony Blair a “fail” for his lecture on religion at Westminster Cathedral. Mr Parris, like a lot of the ‘new atheists’, believes that there is no such thing as progressive faith; for the...

Learning the many faces of humanism

School students will soon be able to study humanism as part of a Religious Studies GCSE under new proposals from the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations board (OCR). A Philosophy and Ethics element will allow the study of topics, like God, and issues, such as...

Ask tough questions about religion, says Vatican cardinal

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, has said religions should be prepared to ask difficult questions and he asserts it is unrealistic to live as if there was only one global faith –...

Welcoming migrants is not optional, says world church body

Migration “is a fact of life. It is as much an instinct to survive as it is an inevitable consequence of globalization. We can neither turn our backs on it, nor control it,” declared a statement of participants at a 15-16 April Public Hearing on Migration...