The ban on Roman Catholics representing the King at the Church of Scotland’s general assembly is set to be lifted in a “historic gesture of goodwill”. The “long overdue” measure will ...

By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo A court in Tokyo on Tuesday ordered the Japanese branch of the Unification Church to disband, three years after it came under scrutiny ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, they gathered in Covent Garden’s coffee houses. Will’s in Russell Street was where the poet John Dryden held court, surrounded by admiring acolytes. Jonathan ...

Catholics will be able to represent the King to the Church of Scotland’s general assembly after MPs overturned a 325-year old law. The decision, which was backed unanimously by MPs, means Lady ...

The crown court backlog in England and Wales has hit a new record high as a minister warned it could rise to 100,000 in four years’ time. New data shows the open caseload stood at 74,651 at the ...

The move to strip the church of its tax exempt status comes after an investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. A Japanese court has ordered the Unification ...

the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church has now approached the court seeking to declare the installation null and void. Sources said three members of the Orthodox Syrian Church have jointly filed a ...

Some 2,000 years ago, olive trees and grapevines likely grew on the land where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ... where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulcher ...

The Jacobite faction in the Malankara Church has welcomed the Kerala High Court ruling on Friday in which the court refused to bar the State government from sending an official delegation to the ...

Tokyo (AFP) – A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the wake of the assassination of ex-premier Shinzo Abe.

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese branch of the church had criticized the request as a serious threat to religious freedom and the human rights of its followers. TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church in ...