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Christians sew friendship with asylum seekers

The experience of having a baby while being a stranger in a strange land inspired Karina Martin to start helping refugees back in Britain. Twenty years later, she is at the vanguard of a movement of faith groups whose support for displaced people is being expanded nationwide. Her approach is simple. When refugee families arrive in her home city of Derby — desperate, isolated, traumatised and already fearful of hostility from local people — she knocks on their door with a “welcome box” of toiletries, sweets, toys and information about the city. In many cases, this gesture is the beginning of a

Biblical cover-up reveals subjects defied king

In a discovery that might not look out of place in the plot of a Dan Brown novel, a scholar has found secret handwritten notes hidden beneath false pages pasted into the oldest printed Bible in England. The inscriptions, which have been concealed in the 1535 edition of the Bible, indicate that historians have been wrong about the extent of Henry VIII’s power over his subjects. Annotations written in the margins of the Bible, which is one of only seven copies to survive, suggest that parishioners continued to speak Latin in church even after Henry banned it as part of his campaign against Roma

I was racked with pain, anger and guilt. Quakerism freed me

We came from different planets, Jack and I. My father was a diplomat, his, a jobbing bricklayer. My mother choreographed mimes and let the washing go mouldy in the clothes basket, his baked rice puddings and sent him out for jellied eels — yet we were like one person. Jack was an Anglican minister. I’d met him at a workshop he was running on prayer. He seemed to burn up the atmosphere with his electric vitality, sparking it with laughter and throwing out astonishing possibilities as he talked in terms I had never heard before about a God I didn’t recognise. He made it seem possible that this

Churches offer B&B (bed and Bible)

Falling asleep in church has always been frowned upon but rural chapels are to convert their pews into fold-out beds for the growing numbers of pilgrims treading the sacred paths. The number of people embarking on pilgrimages in Britain has increased by 20 per cent in the past two years, research shows. Ancient routes are being revived and new routes marked out to link holy sites with historic cathedrals. About 30 new pilgrimage routes have opened in the past ten years, according to the British Pilgrimage Trust. Routes to sites such as Canterbury Cathedral, the island of Lindisfarne off Nort

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