Opinionated Vicar

 Several of my favourite podcasts have featured Islam recently: Justin Brierleys 'Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God ' has episodes...

Fair play to Jeremy Corbyn, at least the Labour party have made a public statement of their policies relating to racial minorities and faith...

This week Parliament will debating something other than Brexit. I know, hard to believe isn't it. The subject in question is a definitio...

Brunei is late to the party, Saudi Arabia has had the death penalty for homosexuality, along with conversion from Islam to any other religi...

A British citizen has just been sentenced to life imprisonment  in the UAE after a 4 minute trial in a language he doesn't speak. He was...

Abbas Massih from Iran is dressed in a smart pinstripe shirt, a large metal cross hanging from his neck. Massih closes his eyes as Smith ma...

Odd piece by Giles Fraser in the Guardian a couple of days back, writing about Operation Christmas Child: this literature promotes an exc...

"We must face the fact that for some young Muslims the attractions of jihadism outweigh the materialism of a consumer society.  As t...

link originally posted by Andrew White, vicar of Baghdad

The savagery of Muslim terrorists in Iraq is being matched by their equivalents in Nigeria . Boko Haram as just as evil as Islamic State, an...

With the ' Trojan Horse ' reports due out today ( update : now published, very serious stuff ), Charles Moore puts his finger on so...

Well done to the Muslim Council of Britain for this Christmas card. I would love for tolerance of Christian festivals and practice to sprea...

Following on from the piece the other day, about Christians being the most persecuted religious body on the planet : Egypt : The Archbish...

some fascinating and timely talks coming up just up the road: Insight Lecture - Living with Islam Wednesday 25th Sept 2013 7.30 p.m. ...

Open Doors have launched an appeal to help persecuted Christians in Syria , with reports of Muslim extremists turning on Christians, many...

Open Doors has published its updated 'World Watch List' of the 50 countries which have the worst record on persecution of Christian...

Last week Tim Montgomery challenged the UK government to do more to stick up for Christians persecuted by Muslims, and listed just a few of ...

Whilst you're waiting for the clock to tick round to 11pm for 'midnight' mass, or even just to pub opening time, a few bits and ...

According to the BNP themselves , 3,000 people have registered to be signed up as members following Question Time. Unsurprisingly, their sit...

Impressive speech by Barack Obama in Cairo, the full text is here , below are some excerpts. So long as our relationship is defined by our ...