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              Religion

              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                The best books of the week
                The forces driving Turkey’s resurgence

                Peter Frankopan on a book that argues that Sunni Islam has reversed the declining influence of religion on Turkish society

                A man holds up a red and white flag
              • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
                Camilla Cavendish
                Secularists must remember that religion is on the rise

                Western rationalists have always assumed that atheism is the logical end point of prosperity. But I’m no longer so sure

                Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a person looking up at the sky as rays stream down from a large sun
              • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
                Fergus Butler-Gallie
                The unsung power of the Christmas carol

                Every year, their simple truths give us perspective on the rumbling horrors of the world beyond

              • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
                News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
                Christians huddled in Gaza speak to the Pope every night

                Nightly calls from pontiff comfort Palestinians sheltering in churches for a second Christmas

                Worshipper holding candles inside a church
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                Enuma Okoro
                The lessons of the ‘lowly’ shepherds

                The humble characters of the Nativity story have much to teach us about being open to ideas of spirituality

                A woman in a blue robe kneels, hands clasped, by a baby lying on a makeshift bed in front of her. Several shepherds gather round, as the small child reaches out to touch the lamb that one of the men holds
              • Monday, 23 December, 2024
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                This Christmas, humanity needs the audacity of hope

                The message of the nativity story has meaning that resonates more broadly

                Nativity Scene. Stained glass window
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                HTSI
                The world’s most wonderful places of worship

                FT editors and contributors nominate 32 awe-inspiring holy buildings, from the Temple of Light in Texas to Thailand’s Khuha Kharuehat Pavilion

                Ellsworth Kelly’s secular Temple of Light in Austin, Texas
              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
                Graham Tomlin
                Giving is good for everyone . . . and not just at Christmas

                Charitable donations have declined in recent years

                People take part in an annual Santa dash in Liverpool to raise money for charity
              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
                Visual Arts
                The Shakers you didn’t know

                ‘Anything But Simple’ focuses on the elaborate, ecstatic drawings made by the religious community’s women

              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                ReviewFiction
                Darkenbloom — a reckoning with Austria’s 20th-century history

                Eva Menasse’s sprawling bestseller, set in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, confronts a nation with its murky past

                An overhead shot of a walled backyard, showing a rooftop, some laundry on a washing line and some tall sunflowers
              • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
                Chine McDonald
                The task for the next Archbishop of Canterbury is monumental

                In many ways, the Church of England is an institution ill at ease with itself

                Justin Welby
              • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
                Justin Welby
                Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over abuse scandal

                Justin Welby had faced intense pressure over his role in Church of England’s failure to halt years of attacks by child abuser

                Justin Welby
              • Monday, 11 November, 2024
                Anglican Church
                Archbishop of Canterbury under pressure to resign over church abuse ‘cover-up’

                Justin Welby faces growing calls to step down after report into child abuser John Smyth

                Justin Welby speaks at an event
              • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Trump’s support among evangelicals shows signs of weakening

                Democrats are trying to win over white churchgoers who have tired of the ex-president’s behaviour

                Man at a campaign rally wearing a red hat with a pro-Trump message on it bows his head in prayer during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump
              • Monday, 21 October, 2024
                News in-depthCanada
                Sikh separatist leader vows to keep fighting India from Toronto

                Murder of former Khalistan movement head further sours relations between Trudeau and Modi governments

                Inderjeet Singh Gosal
              • Monday, 21 October, 2024
                News in-depthMiddle East war
                Beirut divided: Israeli strikes fuel Lebanon’s sectarian tensions

                Arrival of displaced people from south spurs rising paranoia

                A montage showing a woman and child standing in front of a crucifix and clothes on a line with a mosque in the background
              • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
                UK crime
                Religious hate crimes hit record high in England and Wales, data shows

                Offences against Jewish people more than double in year to March while number of incidents against Muslims also rises

                A billboard poster raising awareness about hate crime on a street in Glasgow
              • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
                ReviewNon-Fiction
                The Baton and the Cross — Putin’s cynical co-opting of Russia’s church

                Ex-Moscow correspondent Lucy Ash examines the complicity of the Orthodox Church in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine

                A large-canvas painting of dozens of bare-chested men waist-deep in the waters of a river in a ceremony over which white-robed priests preside
              • Friday, 27 September, 2024
                Catholic Church
                Belgian PM criticises Pope over cover-up of past sex abuse scandals

                Alexander De Croo says his country ‘cannot ignore painful wounds’ caused by Catholic Church

                Alexander De Croo welcomes Pope Francis alongside King Philippe and Queen Mathilde
              • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
                ReviewNon-Fiction
                Lower than the Angels — a magisterial history of sex, Christianity and the meaning of marriage

                Diarmaid MacCulloch’s thrilling book explores the complexities and contradictions of biblical scholarship and its changing interpretations

                An engraving of a man and a woman embracing in an outdoor setting
              • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
                Terrorism in Germany
                Munich police shoot gunman outside Israeli consulate

                Incident comes on anniversary of 1972 Olympic Games terror attacks in city

                Police officers secure the area in Munich on Thursday
              • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
                Masters in Management
                Building belief in business education

                Schools with religious traditions are contributing to a shift toward putting people and planet alongside profit

                A man wearing glasses, a dark suit, and a red tie
              • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
                Education
                US universities brace for next round of Gaza protests as students return

                Academics issue tougher guidelines while trying to clear space for political debate

                A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag on the Columbia university campu
              • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Ukraine passes law to ban ‘pro-Kremlin’ orthodox church

                Kyiv has long argued that the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is agent of Russian influence

                Metropolitan Onufriy, centre, arriving at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Kyiv, Ukraine
              • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
                ReviewLife & Arts
                Spiritual struggle or military tourism?

                Two authoritative histories shed modern light on two centuries of medieval crusades

                An image of men on horses fighting
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