According to the British Asian Christian Association, the Catholic Priest said: “A group of students training to become priests was moving around Satna town, visiting Christian institutions and singing carols. 

“Some 15 km from here in Dara Kalan village church they were getting ready for the Christmas celebrations, when a group of people attacked them, accusing them of carrying out religious conversions.”
The Hindu group raised slogans and called up the Civil Lines Police Station.  All 32 carollers, accompanied by two priests, were taken to the police station. 
Many of the victims who have been arrested have described extrajudicial violence by members of Bajrang Dal, whilst being detained at Civil Lines Police Station in police custody, they say that police officers watched, in some cases goaded the rioters and even joined in the beatings that the priests and seminarians were subjected to. Members of Bajrang Dal and the police have however denied the allegation as is customary in these situations.
A further 8 priests who travelled to the local police station on Friday were set upon by the activists of Bajrang Dal, while their car was set ablaze before them. The priests were also arrested by local police and were detained with those originally arrested.
Police who say they have registered a case under IPC Section 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance) in connection with the arson attack, have set free all 40 of the victims after pressure was…

The poster says: “Wait for us. We meet at Christmas in New York soon.” The Cathedral, however, is in Washington.

According to nbc Washington, the Director of Security Andy Solberg said in a statement that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has been monitoring the situation but has concluded that: “there is currently no indication of an actual, planned attack.”

Despite that, the National Cathedral School is planning to increase its security over the Christmas holidays. 

Another pictures shows a man heavily armed inside a church walking towards a man dressed as Father Christmas. A message on this poster says: ‘Soon on your holidays. Soon, very soon.’

Bishop George Bell, who died 60 years ago, was accused of abusing a girl in the 1950s but a review this week found that the inquiry was deficient and that the Church of England ‘rushed to judgement’.

Those who believe the Bishop to be innocent say his reputation has been destroyed.

But the Archbishop of Canterbury only appeared to criticise the fact that the church named Bell, saying: “’The decision to publish his name was taken with immense reluctance, and all involved recognised the deep tragedy involved.”

He added in the statement: “No human being is entirely good or bad. Bishop Bell was in many ways a hero. He is also accused of great wickedness. Good acts do not diminish evil ones, nor do evil ones make it right to forget the good. Whatever is thought about the accusations, the whole person and whole life should be kept in mind.”

Lord Carlisle, who conducted the review, said Archbishop Justin’s comments were: “less than fully adroit.”

According to the Daily Mail, Dr Ruth Hildebrandt Grayson, the daughter of Bishop Bell’s friend Franz Hildebrandt, said the bishop’s family deserved a personal apology from the Archbishop and the Bishop of Chichester.

‘The Church can’t have its cake and eat it,’ she said. ‘Either he is innocent, in which case they must apologise, or he is guilty, which they can’t prove, and the report makes clear that they have not proved.’

Professor Andrew Chandler, Bell’s biographer, said the…

Amanda Spielman, in an interview with The Times, says she will not keep quiet about the abuse she has received since criticising some faith schools.

Spielman said she had been the victim of some “pretty venomous stuff”, receiving “nasty tweets” and threatening emails from what she believed to be a “mixture of Islamic extremists and the hard left”.

“I had an email, which was the most threatening one, which was along the lines of ‘We know where you live and we can get you any time we want to’.”

In her report published this week she remarked that some independent faith schools are “deliberately choosing” not to meet standards, due to the tensions between legal requirements and community expectations.

Some of her criticism referred to illegal Muslim schools which she said weren’t teaching “British values”.

Spielman revealed that one of Ofsted’s officers was forced to take additional security measures after inspectors were repeatedly sent extreme Islamic literature.

She said some faith schools: “seek to isolate young people from the mainstream, do not prepare them for life in Britain or, worse, and actively undermine fundamental British values”.