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The front-runner in the race for the French presidency wants the separation of church and state to be put into the constitution, prompting religious and legal experts to question how this might alter the way France functions as a state that is already secular by law - writes Michael J. Strauss .

The Japanese environmentalist who said a biblical psalm inspired his campaign linking forest and ocean received one of the United Nations' inaugural Forest Hero awards on 9 February 2012.

With Chris Huhne's resignation, it is generally agreed that the Liberal Democrats have lost their strongest voice in Cabinet, and will be even less able to exert influence over government policies.

Organisations of health professionals have been lining up to denounce the Health and Social Care Bill.

Scottish Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders are being asked to say whether they will allow all their members to choose sides freely in Scotland's independence debate.

Nine Kenyan delegates and three editors gathered together at the Mennonite Guest House in Nairobi the last week in January.

Ed Miliband has accepted David Cameron's cuts. Ken Livingstone shares Boris Johnson's commitment to business.

"Even the burial of his body in the Abbey was a species of theft when you come to think of it". George Orwell's words came into my mind as I watched the ceremonies surrounding today's 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.

Empathy and compassion are possessed, albeit in in differing degrees, by most human beings and their total absence is usually taken as evidence of a personality disorder.

The following letter is being sent this week to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, with a copy to the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres.

Research published today by Barnardo's reveals that the poorest young people have been hit hard by the government's decision to scrap Educational Maintenance Allowance for 16-19-year-olds. The charity said that the government's new Bursary Fund is failing to adequately support disadvantaged teenagers to cover the everyday costs of studying or ... (more)

Amid renewed tensions over the Falkland Islands, the Argentinean Methodist Church has sent a letter to the Methodist Church in Britain, expressing its desire for their governments to resolve their issues peacefully.

The 'human safaris' scandal in the Andaman Islands has reached the UK Parliament, with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the Jarawa tribe's reserve.

A coalition of civil society leaders from UK organisations with more than 12 million members has called on community energy to play a substantial role in meeting Britain''s climate change targets.

"The problem with the truth is that it's complicated. Lies are simple, they can be altered to fit any audience, they can be sensational without any boring honest bits to dilute the story.

Ekklesia associate director Symon Hill will be a panelist on the BBC1 'Big Questions' show, airing at 10am on Sunday 5 February 2012, and afterwards available on the BBC iPlayer for a week.

The Church of Scotland's Moderator has written to all 1,450 Kirk congregations asking them to raise at least A 100 each to help a charity for homeless Scots, following the loss of Scottish Government backing.

It is harvest time for strawberries in the northern Philippine town of La Trinidad, so strawberry farmer Alice Rivera will start repaying a loan extended by a Geneva-based ecumenical church loan fund - writes Maurice Malanes .

SNP Work and Pensions spokeswoman Dr Eilidh Whiteford MP has hit out the 'compassionless UK coalition' after MP's overturned House of Lords amendments to their Welfare Reform Bill on 1 February 2012.

As expected, the coalition succeeded in using its Commons majority to overturn all Lords amendments to its Welfare Reform Bill at Westminster yesterday - including one ameliorating a top-slicing overall benefit cap strongly opposed by charities and churches.