In an interview with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday he said he was in hysterics.

When asked how challenging it was to tell his eight-year-old son about his mother’s death, Thomas said all he could do was scream.

He said: “I left the hospital… she died at 5:45pm on a Friday night and we left about an hour later. “And we came out of the hospital, I think I woke up every patient there because I just screamed.

“I’m a Christian. I’m a man of faith, I screamed to God ‘why, why have you left my boy without a mum?’” 

He added that when he arrived home and told his son, who was heartbroken. 

“All the way back [from the hospital] my heart was pounding,” Simon said. “He went in to see her twice that day… I held him to her ear a couple of times and he said that he loved her. 

“I looked into his deep brown eyes and I just said, Ethan, I’m really sorry, they couldn’t make mummy better. “You can’t dress it up and I just said ‘mummy’s died’.”I took him upstairs looked into his deep brown eyes, I just said they couldn’t make mummy better,” Thomas said. 

“He collapsed onto the floor, I collapsed, we were rolling on the floor and I just held him.” 

Thomas’ wife Gemma died in November after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of acute myeloid…

Five judges sitting in the Malaysian Federal Court in Sarawak state ruled on Tuesday that the country’s Islamic Sharia courts should consider whether their identity cards ought to be revised. 

According to World Watch Monitor, an organisation which reports on cases of Christians seeing persecuted for their faith, people leaving Islam in Malaysia are being left in “legal limbo”.

Three of the believers converted from Islam to Christianity before becoming Muslims again in order to marry a Muslim spouse – they then reconverted to Christianity. 

They have been named as Tiong Choo Ting (formerly known as Mohamed Syafiq Abdullah), Jenny Peter (Nur Muzdhalifah Abdullah) and Salina Jau Abdullah. A fourth is a Malay-Muslim woman, Syarifah Nooraffyza Wan Hosen, who left Islam and became baptised as a Christian in 2009. 

A lawyer representing the group said Islamic Sharia law, which views apostasy as a criminal offence, makes no provision for those wanting to leave the faith. 

Baru Bian, who is an opposition politician and a campaigner for the improvement of rights of indigenous Malaysians, said civil courts should have jurisdiction. 

Tuesday’s ruling comes amid speculation that Islamists have become increasingly vocal in recent years that Malaysia is governed no longer as a secular nation but as a Muslim state.​Stay up to date with the latest news stories from a…

Major denominations, including the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, said in a statement that the church would reopen early on Wednesday after being closed for three days to protest the Israeli tax plan.

The Israeli move had enraged religious leaders, who closed one of Christianity’s most important holy sites ahead of the busy Easter season. The church is revered as the site where Jesus was crucified and resurrected.

Jerusalem’s mayor had backed down on the tax plan earlier on Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said a professional team was being established to negotiate with church officials to “formulate a solution”.

“As a result, the Jerusalem Municipality is suspending the collection actions it has taken in recent weeks,” it said.

The statement from major Christian denominations said “the churches look forward to engage” with the team to ensure Jerusalem “remains a place where the three monotheistic faiths may live and thrive together”.

Christian leaders closed the famed church on Sunday to protest an order by Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat to begin taxing their properties.

Mr Barkat stressed that his decision affected only commercial properties, such as hotels, restaurants and offices, and not houses of worship. He said other cities followed similar practices worldwide.

“As the mayor of the…