Religion

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

Sarfraz Manzoor on why he’s increasingly optimistic about the future of relations between Britain’s Muslims and non-Muslims.

WILL SELF on being welcomed in church and religious identity

Will Self on a Jewish ritual, and two new TV shows that perpetuate the religion's stereotypes

While ministerial sins make headlines here, ‘father of the EU’ Robert Schuman is on the path to canonisation. The founding father of the European Union may soon be getting a halo. Robert Schuman was the Luxembourg-born French statesman who founded the Council of Europe and masterminded the post-war plan for a single European steel and coal authority. It […]

SOPHIA DEBOICK on what might have happened if the attempt on Pope John Paul II’s life had been successful The two bullets fired by his would-be assassin perforated Pope John Paul II’s colon and small intestine, and he lost nearly three-quarters of his blood as he was rushed to hospital. Yet, they narrowly missed his mesenteric artery and […]

When Muslim feminist SEYRAN ATES opened a liberal mosque in Berlin this summer she was met with a barrage of death threats and fatwas. But she says she is undeterred in her campaign to use enlightenment values to defeat extremism – in all forms I have been beaten up in the street, received death threats […]