Religion

Under Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s Orthodox Church has seen its power restored – but only by debasing the faith

The church, both Anglican and Catholic, has conspicuously failed to provide the leadership the UK craves

The next Archbishop of Canterbury has an almost impossible job

Justin Welby has resigned - but for the Daily Mail it's actually a story about Harry and Meghan

The Republican presidential nominee has claimed to have divine protection – but there is a violent threat behind his ‘God whistles’

The Pope has initiated the process of sanctification of a 15-year-old boy who died from a severe form of leukaemia

The Conservatives will reshape after election defeat – and Miriam Cates, at the vanguard of Britain’s growing religious right, could emerge as a leading figure

For the philosopher Don Cupitt, God is the ideal we plan our lives around

The word now used to denote enthusiasm has come a long way from its early days when it was most often used in connection with Christ

A pilgrimage on foot from London to Canterbury is par for the course of this very pedestrian life

I have decided to grow a beard – my mission is to reconcile the two most antipathetic faith communities of London in the contours of my own face

Church is one of the only places in London with black and white people doing something wholeheartedly together that isn’t working for the goddamn man

In order for churches to be properly cherished they’ll have to welcome in people of other faiths and no faith at all

The shock decision is a first for Italy

In a way, the Ahmadi feel like a very suburban, very pacific, rather twee and English sort of Muslim sect

Cardinal Angelo Becciu has been sent to prison for embezzlement and a full clean-up may follow

Why our columnist has taken to de-evangelising evangelists

Critics call it Islamophobic – but Emmanuel Macron’s ban on the abaya, the long Islamic dress, in schools has won surprising support

The gathering was a reminder that the broad secularism of north-western Europe is the exception, not the rule

The current situation is not a bug of the Swedish legal system, it's a feature

A 1988 report wrote off the relic as a medieval fake. But now the science seems to be turning. Could it have been a miracle all along?

A congregation that’s 100% anything when it comes to ethnicity hardly implies diversity, let alone multiculturalism

Britain is increasingly secular, but religion remains baked into our politics and institutions. Does that need to change?

After mourning Pope Emeritus Benedict, Catholic traditionalists are again lining up against Pope Francis

The extraordinary rituals and legends that accompany the death of a Holy Father

Even for atheists, some of what he preaches is worth considering as secular moral philosophy

A shocking outbreak of violence shows that a multicultural society is open to radical ideas from abroad

Headscarf protests by Iranian women have electrified the world. Will a similar rebellion follow in France?

Is a huge financial scandal about to engulf the Vatican?

The institution that has been a central feature of English life for centuries is increasingly sidelined and ignored. Its very survival looks uncertain

Pope Francis’s credentials as a reformer and the future of the Vatican’s finances are being laid bare as a financial crimes mega-trial unfolds in Rome

Anti-Christian sentiment in India has been on the rise since 2014 when Narendra Modi came to power – and now the attacks are turning increasingly violent