Embrace immigrants, pleads England's Catholic leader
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The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales urged people in Britain to be more welcoming towards immigrants in his Christmas address Tuesday.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday pleaded with both sides in the war over homosexuality to repent for bringing the worldwide Church to the brink of schism.
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The head of the Church of England answers critics of a speech in which he said  it might be applicable in certain areas.
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People wanting to settle in Britain had a duty to integrate and must conform to its values or stay away, Prime Minister Tony Blair said today.Comment
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Britain should celebrate its multicultural society while balancing it with a duty to integrate, Tony Blair is to say.
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Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams acknowledged Thursday that there were "serious obstacles" on the path to closer ties between Catholics and Anglicans, reflecting tensions over Anglicans' blessings of same-sex unions and steps to ordain female bishops.
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On his way to his birthplace in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI tried to give a positive outlook to the faithful in his homeland
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A Muslim Labour peer calls for an apology after Pope Benedict XVI's comments on holy war.
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Tony Blair says the issue of his conversion to Catholicism is "unresolved" as he prepares to meet the Pope.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to conservatives in the Anglican Communion, asking them to refrain from using hostile words about homosexuals.
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People wanting to settle in Britain must  conform to its tolerant values or stay away, British Prime  Minister Tony Blair said on Friday.
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The Archbishop of York says he would be "hard-pushed" to describe Britain as a Christian country.
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Still under a cloud for recent   remarks about Islam, Pope Benedict called on Thursday for   tolerance of other religions and cultures and said a rebirth of   faith could help foster this openness in western countries.
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VATICAN CITY, June 30 -- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday made his most significant attempt to unite millions of Chinese Catholics, urging the underground faithful and followers of the state-run church to overcome decades of animosity and distrust.
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Pope Benedict XVI has called on Australians to do more towards racial reconciliation between settlers and the country's Aborigines, many of whom live impoverished and marginalised lives.
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Islamic extremism in Britain has created communities that are "no-go areas" for non-Muslims, a Pakistani-born Church of England bishop said in The Sunday Telegraph. Michael Nazir-Ali, the bishop of Rochester, told the newspaper that Britain's policies of multiculturalism have created separate Muslim communities that fail to integrate into mainstream society. "There has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism. One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from the nation in which they were growing up and also to turn already separate communities into `no-go' areas where adherence to this ideology has become a mark of acceptability," said Nazir-Ali. Read more
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The UK's leading Christian leader has tried to damp down controversy surrounding comments he made suggesting that some aspects of Muslim Sharia law could become part of British law.