Britain is no longer a Christian nation, says bishop

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - Upminster is the sexiest town in Britain with residents spending 11 times more on their sex lives than the national average. Adults in Upminster spend approximately 70.93 pounds a year on their sex lives, reports the Mirror.

August 14th, 2009 NEW YORK - Several Pakistani Christians took to the streets here and staged a demonstration in front of the United Nations to protest against the Gojra riots in which nine Christians were killed and several others injured. People held placards that read: "Stop killing innocent Christians," "Don't kill or destroy in Allah's name", "Cruelty against humanity is blasphemy", and "Stop burning Christian Churches" shouted slogans against the Pakistan government.

August 12th, 2009 LAHORE - The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Richard Chartres and the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Dr Ali Gomaa, have both condemned the recent anti-Christian riots in Gojra that claimed nine persons and left many injured. "On behalf of the C-1 World Dialogue, we deplore the recent terrible events in Gojra where at least seven Pakistani Christians were killed and many more wounded in a terrible attack," the Daily Times quoted the duo, as saying in a joint statement.

August 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Christian community in the town of Gojra has closed all schools and colleges in the area for three days as a mark of respect for the eight persons killed in riots on Saturday. Hundreds of Muslims, apparently spurred by a banned militant group, stormed a Christian neighbourhood in the eastern city of Gojra on Saturday, burning dozens of houses after reports surfaced that some Christians had desecrated a Quran.

July 23rd, 2009 Church of England offers combined wedding, baptismLONDON — The Church of England is offering couples a two-for-one service — marriage for them and baptisms for their children. The church is recognizing the changing reality of British families, it said Thursday.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Britain has withdrawn deportation orders on two of the nine Pakistani students who were detained on national security grounds earlier this year. Both students, Sultan Sher and Janas Khan belong to the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan and were arrested from Leeds and Milton Keynes respectively.

July 6th, 2009 World's oldest Christian Bible digitizedLONDON — The British Library says the surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally. The library says the early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus had been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years.

July 5th, 2009 Church of England bishop says gays should 'repent'LONDON — A senior Church of England bishop has angered gay-rights campaigners by saying homosexuals should repent. Archbishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that the Bible defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

May 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - One in ten of the 5000 Catholic priests in Ireland are involved in clandestine affairs with women, says a rebel Bishop whose organization supports priests in forbidden relationships According to Bishop Pat Buckley, at least 500 priests enjoyed regular sex with women and some even referred to their clerical collar as the "bird catcher". Studies had shown that 80 per cent of priests had broken their vows of celibacy, he added.

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - 'The Dark Knight' star Christian Bale says he is obsessed about knowing the guns 'very well' before using them in a film so that it looks more authentic. 'I always get quite tedious about knowing my gun very well.

May 12th, 2009 LONDON - A controversial Muslim programme-maker has been appointed as the BBC's new head of religious broadcasting. According to the BBC, Aaqil Ahmed will move to the corporation from Channel Four.

April 21st, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan based Christian missionaries have predicted that the Taliban takeover of Swat will extend to more parts of the country, which will further worsen the conditions for Christians. "This is bad, as it is, and will only worsen if sharia law spreads further than the Swat Valley.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - According to a European Union survey, Britain is one of the least religious nations in Europe, but it has one of the highest rates of "fuzzy or abstract faith." The major study says only 12 per cent of Britons feel they belong to a church, compared with 52 per cent in France, The Telegraph reports. However, it also found that the UK has one of the highest rates of "fuzzy faith" or people who have an abstract belief in God and an ill-defined loyalty to Christian traditions.

March 6th, 2009 LONDON - A 22-year-old British man was Thursday given a life sentence for stabbing to death a young actor who had a role in the next Harry Potter film. Karl Bishop, who had a previous conviction for knife crime, murdered 18-year-old Robert Knox in a fight outside a bar in Sidcup, south London, last May.

January 31st, 2009 LONDON - The number of Muslims in Britain has grown by more than 500,000 to 2.4 million in four years, according to official research collated for The Times newspaper. The population multiplied 10 times faster than the rest of society, the research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals.