Masood Ahmad is 72. A British-Pakistani dual national, he returned to his native Pakistan in 1982 after working in London for some years to pay his children’s school fees. On…
Alex Gabriel is one atheist who won't be decking the halls with boughs of holly this year.
At the start of 2013, it looked as if Islamists had gained the most from the uprisings that shook Egypt and Tunisia two years earlier. What happened next? Rachel Shabi…
What would JS Mill have had to say about a recent suggestion to ban face coverings in public?
In the first of Alom Shaha's series of interviews with believers, historian Tom Holland explains how he reconciles his scepticism with his enduring Christian faith
It's possible to challenge both sexism and racism at once. In fact, we have been doing it for years, writes Priyamvada Gopal
It's awkward, even embarrassing - but the search for meaning in life has a political context that can't be ignored, writes Jonathan Rowson
The first weekend after I started at my Accelerated Christian Education school, aged 11, I went to stay with my Grandad. I couldn’t wait to show him my ACE workbooks.…
Vatican dodges UN sex abuse questions The Vatican on Tuesday dodged a series of questions posed by a U.N. committee about clerical sexual abuse by noting that the Holy See…
Pope Francis calls for power to move away from Vatican Pope Francis has called for power in the Catholic Church to be devolved away from the Vatican, in the first…