The Darren Aronofsky-directed biblical blockbuster ‘Noah’, which stars Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, and Emma Watson, has been banned in Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates for violating Islamic law.
A UKIP councillor has written a homophobic letter to a local newspaper in Henley on Thames blaming the recent storms and flooding in the UK on the legalisation of gay marriage.
Pope Francis has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for “pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets”. He beat nine others including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Bashar al-Assad.
Church attendance has been falling for decades, but so too has the belief in God, with religious parents in the UK only having a 50% chance of producing religious children.
Pope Francis has taken the opportunity of his visit to Brazil to reach out to gay believers, saying that they should not be marginalised but integrated into society.