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  Christian families receive death threats in India

  Morning Star News | Wed 13 May 2020 8:27 BST

  Animists in central India last week told five Christian families they would lose their harvest lands unless they returned to their tribal religion and beat them when they refused, sources said.

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  'Thank you' prayers for parliamentarians

  Staff writer | Tue 12 May 2020 9:05 BST

  Christians have been sending handwritten prayers to their MPs to support them during the coronavirus lockdown.

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  NI abortion changes are 'very wrong', says peer

  Right to Life UK | Mon 11 May 2020 6:53 BST

  A leading pro-life campaigner and member of the House of Lords has called on Northern Ireland residents to "make their voices heard" and demand the new extreme abortion regime regulations are not approved.

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  People are googling prayer because they are looking for a 'sacred experience', says Russell Brand

  Staff writer | Sun 10 May 2020 9:00 BST

  The comedian said he was praying "to have faith that even though I don't know how things are going to be alright, that they will be alright".

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  UK marks 75th anniversary of VE Day

  Staff writer | Fri 8 May 2020 9:05 BST

  Commemorations are taking place across the UK on Friday, which remembers May 8, 1945, the day on which Nazi Germany officially surrendered to the allied forces, ending World War Two.

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  Church warden, 88, killed in horror knife attack

  Nate Flannagan | Wed 6 May 2020 17:06 BST

  A church warden, 88, has been identified as the man who was killed in a knife attack in South Wales on Tuesday.

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  Abortion clinic censorship zone to be challenged in European court

  Staff writer | Wed 6 May 2020 7:30 BST

  A woman who changed her mind about having an abortion after meeting pro-life campaigners outside the clinic is seeking to challenge London's first 'censorship zone' in the European Court of Human Rights.

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  Lockdown worship session clocks up over a million views

  Staff writer | Tue 5 May 2020 7:11 BST

  A collaborative music video recorded by UK Christian artists from their homes during lockdown has been watched over a million times on YouTube.

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  Christian fostering agency takes Ofsted to court over religious ethos report

  Staff writer | Tue 5 May 2020 6:49 BST

  A Christian fostering agency is to challenge Ofsted in the High Court over a report that called its Christian ethos "discriminatory".

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  Brits would trust the Vicar of Dibley to lead the nation during Covid-19 - poll

  Staff writer | Mon 4 May 2020 7:05 BST

  Brits would trust the Vicar of Dibley more than any other TV clergy to lead the nation through a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey by Christian Aid.

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  Younger adults more likely to pray regularly amid Coronavirus lockdown

  Staff writer | Sun 3 May 2020 9:10 BST

  In the Tearfund survey, a quarter of UK adults said they have watched or listened to a religious service on the radio since the lockdown. Five per cent of these had never been to church before.