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'Deporting migrants is immoral - Rwanda policy incites hate and is wrong'

Dumping people 4,000 miles away is 'immoral' (Church of England bishops), 'appalling' (Prince Charles) and 'ugly' (Tory MP and former minister Jesse Norman) when legal routes for refugees are largely shut

Daily Mirror

UK's 'immoral' migrant flights to Rwanda get all-clear from courts

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has beaten back criticism of his plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, saying that efforts to block the flights were "abetting the work of criminal gangs" involved in smuggling people across borders, while the Church of England has called the deportations "immoral."

Radio France Internationale

'Completely moral' Rwanda flight to take off today - even with empty seats, says Truss

Liz Truss defended the Rwanda flights policy after Church of England leaders, including the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, branded it an 'immoral' plan that 'shames Britain'

Daily Mirror

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Migrants pulled from ‘completely moral’ Rwanda flight ‘will be on next one’, warns Liz Truss

Critics should come up with a better idea, says foreign secretary

The Independent UK

Rwanda migrants – live: Home Office ‘undeterred’ after legal battle grounds plane

Seven people were originally scheduled to be on tonight’s flight to Rwanda

The Independent UK

Rwanda policy "shames" Britain, Church of England leaders tell Boris Johnson

Archbishop Justin Welby is among church leaders who say the government's immigration policy is "immoral". The news follows reports that Prince Charles believes the Rwanda deal is "appalling".

Daily Mirror

‘Immoral’ Rwanda deportations shame Britain, say Church of England leaders

Senior Church of England bishops say vulnerable people should be offered safe routes to the UK

The Independent UK

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Bishop tells Boris Johnson to quit for 'obviously' lying over Partygate

Church of England Bishop the Rt Rev Dr Alan Wilson said the Prime Minister's claims he did not realise what was going on were "nonsense" and that the country needed a leader it could trust

Daily Mirror

Royal jubilees have always been surprisingly religious affairs

Queen Elizabeth II is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee, marking her 70 years on the throne. Like all jubilees since the first celebrating 50 years of King George III’s reign in 1809, this is a national occasion with celebrations arranged in many communities across the United…

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Welby says it would have been ‘cowardly’ not to speak out about Rwanda plan

The Archbishop of Canterbury faced criticism for taking aim at the immigration policy in his Easter sermon.

The Independent UK

Suranne Jones' Gentlemen Jack helps gay women with their sexuality

A new documentary followed the lives of women as they came to terms with their sexuality

Liverpool Echo

Suranne Jones helps gay women come out with lesbian role in BBC's Gentleman Jack

Gay women say in a new documentary that watching the hit BBC period drama Gentleman Jack, starring Suranne Jones and Sophie Rundle, has made it easier for them to be open about their sexuality

Daily Mirror

Mum 'devastated' as son kicked out of school for taking a toy gun to McDonald's

The self-employed cleaner insisted her son was the victim of "unfair treatment" and likened the Church of England academy to an "army camp"

Irish Mirror

Boy, 12, excluded for 'taking toy pistol to McDonald's before school' with mum devastated

His mum is appealing the decision

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Church of England to pump £3.6bn into parishes and fund more social action

Money will support projects such as food banks, as church seeks to ‘raise its game in its service to the nation’

The Independent UK

Church to ‘put its money where its mouth is’ to help with cost-of-living crisis

Some £3.6 billion will be spent over the next nine years, it was announced on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Former Oxford college dean and senior cleric to leave Church of England

Martyn Percy cited a ‘parlous state of safeguarding’ and ‘culture of bullying and harassment’ in the church

The Guardian - UK

Apology, 800 years on, for laws that expelled Jews from England

Church service to mark eight centuries since Synod of Oxford brings together chief rabbi, senior Anglicans and a Roman Catholic bishop

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God’s own gardens: why churchyards are some of our wildest nature sites

Peaceful, unpolluted and often left untouched for centuries, a growing green church movement is helping these havens of biodiversity thrive

The Independent UK

Archbishop says Church of England not a ‘passive observer’ of migration policy

The Archbishop previously said the Government’s new policy would not stand up to the scrutiny of God.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson news - live: MPs to investigate PM over potential partygate Commons lies

PM accused of ‘running away’ from Commons drama with twice-delayed India trip

The Independent UK

PM strikes back in row with Church of England over Rwanda asylum seeker plan

Lambeth Palace issued a defence of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

The Guardian - UK

No 10 goes into battle with archbishops over Rwanda asylum plan

Downing Street refuses to deny PM told MPs archbishops were being unfairly critical as church figures defend Justin Welby

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson stands by attack on Church of England over immigration

Prime minister was urged by Keir Starmer to apologise

Daily Mirror

BBC confronts top Tory over Boris Johnson as Church condemns PM's 'disgraceful slur'

Sources say Boris Johnson claimed the BBC and Archbishop were keener to criticise him than Putin. But BBC presenter Justin Webb told Tory Paul Scully it was a 'smokescreen' while a Church of England official said it was a 'disgraceful slur'

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